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As a national network dedicated to music, Fuse reaches 73 million Nielsen subscribers nationwide and features original series and specials, exclusive interviews, live concerts and video blocks - all rooted in the music experience. NUVOtv is the premier English-language destination for Latino entertainment, embodying the vibrancy and richness of modern Latino culture. The networks will continue to operate independently.
"The acquisition of Fuse represents a transformational event for us and also provides significant benefits to NUVOtv," Mr. Schwimmer stated. "It enhances our distribution relationships, dramatically expands our aggregate subscriber base, provides substantial economies of scale, affords unique opportunities for programming and cross-promotion and should be extremely appealing to the advertising community as we roll out our plans for both NUVOtv and Fuse."
"We are pleased that Fuse has joined the SiTV Media family, and are looking forward to the continued success of the network," said Mr. Smith.
International superstar and powerhouse entrepreneur, Jennifer Lopez - who serves as NUVOtv's Chief Creative Officer and is a shareholder - said, "Music is my first love so the acquisition of Fuse is near and dear to my heart. It's exciting that between NUVOtv and Fuse we'll have the ability to deliver a broad array of terrific content both from a Latino perspective and across multiple genres, including music, to a broader audience. The acquisition of Fuse means we now own two wonderful assets. It's a phenomenal time for our company and we look forward to growing both networks in the years ahead."
NUVOtv is the premier network for Latino entertainment and offers a diverse array of high-quality programming across genres. NUVOtv's new 2014 line-up includes original programming co-executive produced by Jennifer Lopez under her Nuyorican Productions banner: a weekly music program The Collective, Powered by Vevo; and quarterly film showcase Nu Point of View: The Emerging Latino Filmmakers. Mario Lopez is an executive producer of two original shows for the network: celebrity interview show Mario One-On-One and the upcoming romantic dating competition Love and Salsa (premiering May 6). The network will introduce its first sports programming with the reality boxing competition Knockout, (premiering April 9) and continue its strong comedy lineup with Stand Up & Deliver:
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As part of the acquisition, NUVOtv also plans to utilize Fuse's current street front studio on Seventh Avenue - across from Madison Square Garden - to continue to create dynamic content.
Fuse, which became a part of MSG in 2008, has remained dedicated to bringing artists and fans together through its music programming, which includes music news and information, coverage of premier artists, events and festivals, original content and concerts. Highlights from Fuse's line up of original programming include live studio shows, as well as Funny or Die's Billy on the Street, a music and pop culture trivia show starring Billy Eichner; and Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce, which follows "Bounce" pioneer Big Freedia. Additionally, Fuse covers live concerts and events, and boasts comprehensive coverage of major music festivals throughout the country.
Under the terms of the transaction, MSG will receive $226 million, as well as 15 percent equity of the combined company, which will be subject to potential reduction based on certain performance goals. MSG will also gain a seat on the SiTV Media Board of Directors. The completion of this transaction, which is subject to Hart-Scott-Rodino clearance and other closing conditions, is expected to occur in MSG's fiscal 2015 first quarter between July 1 and September 30.
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Friday, July 2, 2010
Sacred bread
This disease was finally conquered by clever monks whose hospitals and abbey were located in a lovely Dauphiné village not far from where I live. Their cure consisted simply of prohibiting the consumption of foul rye bread, and feeding their patients with pork broth.
In France, certain persistent superstitions (which I won't enumerate) remind us that we shouldn't fuck around with bread. After all, there are still hordes of magicians who claim that, with mysterious incantations, they're capable of transforming this archaic foodstuff into human flesh. Maybe I should speak rather of superhuman flesh, or even divine flesh. You know what I'm talking about: all that so-called transubstantiation bullshit, in which many otherwise sane folk claim to believe. In fact, I don't imagine for a second that they're really gobbling down cannibalistically a tasty little bit of Jesus's flesh. Besides, if pious folk all over the world have been consuming the Savior for so long, how come there's still a bit of him left? Is his flesh perpetually regenerated, like the missing tail of a lizard? What utter nonsense… and to think that people say they believe in that hogwash.
Let me get back to the "sacred bread" (inverted commas intended to remove all possible religious ambiguities) that I bake regularly at Gamone. It might or might not be religious, Christian, orthodox, Christ's transubstantiated body, or what the fucking hell… but my Gamone bread's bloody tasty. Just ask Sophia!
It's funny to admit that the initial phase of making Gamone bread consists in fact of my getting down on my hands and knees… but not to pray. I simply have to use a carpenter's hammer and a hunk of local tuff rock to break open a bowl of walnuts.
The recipe and the role of the bread machine are straightforward. Meanwhile, my dear dog is entitled to a few stray walnuts.
This photo is lovely. Sophia has put on white gloves (metaphorically, as it were) to handle that walnut, as if it were a rare delicacy, a treasure… which it is, of course, in Sophia's noble and generous mind (akin to that of an ancient Greek philosopher such as Socrates). At that instant, if my dog were a poet (which she surely is, in a way), she would be contemplating the opening stanzas of an ode to a walnut...
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We watched Griff Rhys Jones' program on Paris the other night. From memory, at least 80% of bread made in France is made by hand, while in England it's something like 20%. I imagine that Australia would be like England.ReplyDelete
We've been making our own bread for about 10 years now. Use a bread machine to mix the dough. Don't use bread mixes. Only buy Turkish bread, because we can't make it and rarely buy any other bread because we don't like it as much as our own!
BTW, Sophia is a star :-)
Thanks, Annie, for your reflections. How come I don't have any memories or don't recall any evocations of bread ovens at my ancestral Waterview (South Grafton) homestead? I don't remember ever hearing my relatives talk about wheat, or flour, or anything like that. I was just as dumb as suburban kids who imagine that milk is produced in factories.ReplyDelete
Remember, Bill, that our primary school classmate Betty Gregor's dad was the local baker? In those days the baker, milko, and greengrocer all did their horse-drawn rounds to deliver, and the bread was so good that there was probably never any thought of DIY breadmaking for townfolk. I can still taste the beautiful fresh-bread sandwiches that I used to make on the odds days (usually Wednesday before sports afternoon) that I'd ride home from high school for lunch.ReplyDelete
Yes, Ron, I well remember Gregor's bakery, located just to the right (I seem to recall) of our barber. I think there was a second bakery down on the corner of Skinner Street and the Gwydir Highway (Ryan Street) where Craig's Birdplace and Pet Shop is now located. If I remember correctly, a standard loaf of bread was composed of a pair of blocks, easy to separate, which meant that it was easy to purchase half a loaf. I retain no visual memory at all of Betty Gregor's father, which merely confirms, no doubt, that he was only visible during the early hours of the morning. There are many unanswered questions in my mind concerning the bread situation in our native place. I can't imagine that rural folk drove their sulkies into South Grafton every day to pick up a loaf of bread. Was fresh bread delivered, like milk, to outlying areas? What exactly was that concoction known as a "damper" (without yeast, if I remember correctly)? Was it a serious foodstuff, or merely symbolic Aussie tucker for individuals such as Ned Kelly, the Man from Snowy River and present-day tourists? What I'm trying to say is that it wasn't until I arrived in France that I learned that the production bread requires a magic substance, yeast, and an oven. For example, what kind of oven did Betty's father use to do his baking? If it was a wood oven, then how come we never saw piles of wood being delivered in front of the bakery, and smoke coming out of his chimney? (The same might be said for Harrison's cake shop in Prince Street, Grafton.) That's what I was getting at when I suggested that, as a child, I simply imagined that bread kind of grew on trees...ReplyDelete
I don't have any recollection of Betty Gregor's father either, Bill...and anyway I think it was the other bakery that delivered to my house, the two bakers perhaps having carved up the territory between them. Whatever, the bread just arrived, just like milk's at the supermarket for today's kids. I have a vague idea - and maybe it's from later years when I was teaching at Tumut and Gundagai rather than from South Grafton - that bread and other things might have been delivered out-of-town by a mail contractor, or with school buses, to roadside mail boxes (remember the boxes and upended 10-gallon drums on posts, hand-painting-labeled RMB with a number?). Or perhaps carried by the daily brown bus to Glen Innes, the silver bus to Armidale, the yellow bus to Woolgoolga, or whatever-coloured other buses went to Wooli, Yamba, Iluka, Copmanhurst, etc (when many of the main roads were still unsealed gravel). As for damper, I think I've only ever had it once or twice, probably at a touristy restaurant in Sydney, and probably nothing like Ned Kelly's campfire production. Getting back to the bakery, I think our barber next door was Tommy McDonald. I'm sure that at school we used to refer to him as Tommy, as in "I'm going to see Tommy for a haircut on the way home from school today", but I was always very careful to call him Mr McDonald to his face. However, one afternoon as I was climbing into the chair (by then old enough not to need the box that he'd put on the chair for little kids) I forget, and said "Hullo Tommy" or such-like. Immediately I felt terribly ashamed at my discourtesy and wanted to disappear, hoping he hadn't noticed. He didn't say anything, but I was sure to never ever thereafter address him other than as Mister McDonald. Sorry that I'm rambling on rather long here with thoughts that would perhaps be better left until such time, if ever, that I get to call in on you to share a bottle or two of your local red, some of your home-made bread, and some cheese, and to make friends with Sophia. However, I'm reminded of one late afternoon at home when Andy Pollack and Bobby Gregor were kicking a football around the front yard...and it hit the wires coming in to my house, shorted them, and down they came. Bobby disappeared very smartly, no doubt sensibly deciding that discretion was the better part of valour. My Mum probably had dinner ready, and then we were going down to the pictures at the Prince Edward to see High Noon (Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly), meaning that it didn't matter much that the Northern Rivers County Council couldn't come to fix things until next day. It was probably a warm night, before the air conditioning that people can't survive without today, and before fans too.ReplyDelete
Sorry, Bill. I didn't mean to send it three times. On the first two attempts I got a response that it was too big to go, so I kept abbreviating until they stopped chastising me. However it turns out that they were telling fibs each time, sending it anyway. Tricky buggers.ReplyDelete
It wasn't until I arrived here at Choranche that I saw, for the first time ever, a traditional wood-burning oven for baking bread or pizzas, and started to understand how such a device actually functioned. I was amazed to learn, for example, that the burning wood is located inside the oven, to one side of the stuff being baked. That's to say, I cannot recall ever having heard of, let alone seen, such a bread oven back in the Clarence River district. At Waterview, we had a wood-fuelled metal "stove" for daily cooking. In my grandparents' houses in Grafton, they cooked with municipal gas. Maybe, one of these days, I'll put this question of bread-making to Frank Mack, at the CRHS (Clarence River Historical Society). Talking about traditional food preparation, I cannot recall ever having seen a carcass of lamb being roasted on a spit in Australia. People boast about the Aussie BBQ tradition but, compared with roasting on a spit, BBQ steaks and sausages are urban Mickey Mouse stuff.ReplyDelete
- Jonathan KeithMarch 18, 2016 at 2:54 AM
I stumbled across this post searching online for my mother's maiden name. I thought you might be interested to know that Betty Keith nee Gregor passed away last October, her parents Allan and Doris both passed away in 1996, and her brother Bob is living in Los Angeles. I'd love to talk to some of mum's friends from school days if possible.ReplyDelete

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We're thinking about solar power over at the Azimuth Project, so Graham Jones wrote a page on solar radiation. This led him to a nice little geometry puzzle.
If you float in space near the Earth, and measure the power density of solar radiation, you'll get 1366 watts per square meter. But because this radiation hits the Earth at an angle, and not at all during the night, the average global solar power density is a lot less: about 341.5 watts per square meter at the top of the atmosphere. And of this, only about 156 watts/meter2 makes it down the Earth's surface. From 1366 down to 156 — that's almost an order of magnitude! This is why some people like the idea of space-based solar power.
But when I said "a lot less", I was concealing a cute and simple fact: the average global solar power density is one quarter of the power density in outer space near Earth's orbit:
Why? Because the area of a sphere is four times the area of its circular shadow!
Anyone who remembers their high-school math can see why this is true. The area of a circle is πr2, where r is the radius of the circle The surface area of a sphere is 4πr2, where r is the radius of the sphere. That's where the factor of 4 comes from.
Cute and simple. But Graham Jones posed a nice followup puzzle: What's the easiest way to understand this factor of 4? Maybe there's a way that doesn't require calculus — just geometry. Maybe with a little work we could just see that factor of 4. That would be really satisfying.
But I don't know how to "just see it". So this is not the sort of puzzle where I smile in a superior sort of way and chuckle to myself as you folks struggle to solve it. This the sort where I'd really like to know the best answer.
But here's something I do know: we can derive this factor of 4 from a nice but even less obvious fact which I believe was proved by Archimedes.
Take a sphere and slice it with a bunch of parallel planes, like chopping an apple with a cleaver. If two slices have the same thickness, they also have the same surface area!
(When I say "surface area" here, I'm only counting the red skin of the apple slices.)
There's an interesting cancellation at work here. A slice from near the top or bottom of the sphere will be smaller, but it's also more "sloped". The magic fact is that these effects exactly cancel when we compute its surface area.
If you think a bit, you can see this is equivalent to another nice fact:
The surface area of any slice of a sphere matches the surface area of the corresponding slice of the cylinder with the same radius. If you don't get what I mean, see the picture at Wolfram Mathworld.
And this in turn implies that the surface area of the sphere equals the surface area of the cylinder, not including top and bottom. But that's the cylinder's circumference times its height. So we get
So we get that factor of 4 we wanted.
In fact, Archimedes was so proud of discovering this fact that he put it on his tomb! Cicero later saw this tomb and helped save it from obscurity. He wrote:
But from Dionysius's own city of Syracuse I will summon up from the dust—where his measuring rod once traced its lines—an obscure little man who lived many years later, Archimedes. When I was questor in Sicily [in 75 BC, 137 years after the death of Archimedes] I managed to track down his grave. The Syracusians knew nothing about it, and indeed denied that any such thing existed. But there it was, completely surrounded and hidden by bushes of brambles and thorns. I remembered having heard of some simple lines of verse which had been inscribed on his tomb, referring to a sphere and cylinder modelled in stone on top of the grave. And so I took a good look round all the numerous tombs that stand beside the Agrigentine Gate. Finally I noted a little column just visible above the scrub: it was surmounted by a sphere and a cylinder. I immediately said to the Syracusans, some of whose leading citizens were with me at the time, that I believed this was the very object I had been looking for. Men were sent in with sickles to clear the site, and when a path to the monument had been opened we walked right up to it. And the verses were still visible, though approximately the second half of each line had been worn away.
I don't know what the verses said.
It's been said that the Roman contributions to mathematics were so puny that the biggest was Cicero's discovery of this tomb. But Archimedes' result doesn't by itself give an easy intuitive way to see where that factor of 4 is coming from! You may or may not find it to be a useful clue.
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Nintendo's 3D television service "Itsu no Ma ni Terebi" went live today in Japan. The service is light on actual 3D programs, and it might disappoint some. Others, it will make uncomfortable, but not for the reason you'd think.
It's no secret, 3D gaming and the 3DS and me do not mix. That's fine. Nintendo allows people like me to switch off the 3D effect and still enjoy the 3DS, which I have been doing. The 3D television experience is far more comfortable— probably because you can leave the 3DS in one place, kick back, and don't have to worry if pressing a button will knock you out of the sweetspot needed to create the 3D effect. This article is not about this. It's about a nuclear disaster, a bailout, and a building.
Nintendo uploaded a handful of 3D clips today; they're on the short side. The service isn't TV per se, but television clips—about 2 minutes and 20 seconds each, with 20 seconds being a commercial. Sometimes the commercials are stuck at the end, sometimes in the middle. They're what keep the service free, and I'm fine with that.
The selection of the clips is a fair mix: From sumo wrestling idols to magic tricks. It's typical crap you'd see on Japanese television, so no surprises seeing it on the 3DS. But one choice comes off as odd—slightly out of touch, even.
In the "Unexpectedly Selected Train View 3D", 3DS owners get a front and center view from a Tokyo Yurikamome train. As the train makes its way between stations in the 2 minute and 30 second clip, only two buildings are shown and labelled on-screen: a Tokyo Gas building and the TEPCO Toyosu Building.
TEPCO owns and operates the Fukushima nuclear reactors.
A recent poll revealed that eighty percent of Japanese do not trust TEPCO or believe what the company says about the Fukushima nuclear crisis. People are upset that the government is going to bail out TEPCO, which has a checkered history of safety at its nuclear plants. And just yesterday, TEPCO stock was relegated to "junk" status. Yet here, one of only two shown, is a TEPCO building!
Seeing it feels out of step and out of touch. Out of all the train lines, out of all the buildings in Japan, why this, why now.


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Helix Showrunner: "We're Really Trying to Not Make It a Zombie Show"
On the new Syfy drama series Helix, an outbreak plagues an Arctic research facility. When a team from the Centers for Disease Control arrives on the scene, the researchers discover a disease that has killed at least two and turned a third man into an unstoppable monster attempting to spread the disease.
So is Ron Moore's latest project just The Walking Dead with snow? Not necessarily. "We're really trying to not make it a zombie show," showrunner Steve Maeda says. "I would say the main difference about our 'vectors,' as we call them, is that they are not mindless eating machines. They're very scary and they're human and they look horrible. What we're going to find out about the vectors is that they're incredibly smart and so they retain a lot of their intelligence, if not their humanity, which makes them very different from zombies."
Exclusive: Check out the trippy poster for Ron Moore's new Syfy series Helix
Leading the CDC team is Dr. Alan Farragut (Billy Campbell). When he and his team - whose team includes Dr. Julia Walker (Kyra Zagorsky), Dr. Sarah Jordan (Jordan Hayes) and Dr. Doreen Boyle (Catherine Lemieux - are brought to the Arctic Biosystems facility where the outbreak originated, they learn that Alan's brother Peter (Neil Napier) is actually the infected monster.
At its core, Helix is a psychological, horror thriller. With Peter on the loose, watching the residents of the isolated facility becomes a nail-biting joy ride. "It lends itself to a very claustrophobic environment because you can go outside, but only for brief periods of time," Maeda says of the Arctic setting. "It's almost like being set on a spaceship where you're trapped inside with unseen horrors and then there are all sorts of human problems that develop from that."
That, of course, is also the goal here. "It takes some of the characters to some very dark places and they start doing things that they might not do if they were in regular circumstances," Zagorsky says. "Their true humanity comes out, the good and the bad."
Of course, the vectors aren't the only thing the team has to worry about. Hiding the possible truth behind a virus is Arctic Biosystems' director Dr. Hiroshi Hatake (Hiroyuki Sanada), who is only one of many characters keeping dangerous secrets. "Everyone's got an agenda," Maeda says. "Everyone's got secrets, every single character. Some of them are big, giant things that will impact the plot, and some are smaller, but just as important character secrets."
Although the team is pretty much confined to Arctic Biosystems, the disease itself provides a way for the show to explore other parts of this world. "Part of what the virus does is it makes you hallucinate," Maeda teases. "So, hallucinations play a fairly good-sized piece of certain episodes. And what they allow you to do is go to places you wouldn't otherwise be able to go."
That said, keeping things contained is an important part of the series: The doctors have no hope of leaving the facility until they find a cure to prevent the disease from spreading to the general population. "We have to solve it or figure it out or at least keep it here in this place because if it gets out, it's going to be a calamity," Maeda says. "Our CDC scientists and the other scientists are not only scared for their own lives, but scared of what might happen if this thing gets out."
Will it spread beyond Arctic Biosystems? Find out when Helix premieres Friday at 10/9c with two back-to-back episodes on Syfy.
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In the VORTEX with Cage and Cunningham
From John Cage aficionados to new listeners, surprises are in store when Blair's percussion ensemble VORTEX joins with former dancers of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and Nashville's Company Rose on Sunday, April 1. The two-hour production will feature works spanning four and a half decades, including a presentation of Cunningham choreography in a 30-minute "MinEvent" with the percussion students of VORTEX.
"With the closure of the company on December 31, any collaborative performance of John Cage's music with Cunningham-trained dancers is a rare event," Artistic Director Michael Holland says. "To put this in perspective, this is comparable to having Nijinsky's dancers from the Ballet Russe on hand for a student performance of the Rite of Spring. One cannot understand Cage without taking into account the artistic relationship with Cunningham. These are giants who changed the landscape of art and waited for the world to catch up to them."
Nashville's Company Rose will restage the lost Cage work Fads and Fancies in the Academy. Created by Cage and 1940s modern dance pioneer Marian Van Tuyl, this barely known piece was originally subtitled by Cage and Van Tuyl as A Gentle Satire on Progressive Education. For the first time since the work was created, Company Rose and VORTEX will reunite Cage's rhapsodic program music with choreography created by Marsha Barsky and Erin Law and informed by Van Tuyl's original work. The new staging was made possible by Michael Holland's recent uncovering of archival film footage and notes from Van Tuyl's work with Cage.
This retrospective concert is one of the largest in the nation and will involve students and faculty from across the campus in addition to guest artists in Nashville. Music, art, theater, dance and film studies are pooling talents and resources to make this a once-in-a-lifetime event. And at the center of everything are the students of VORTEX: Alexander Carter, Daniel Closser, Robby Hill, Orion Phillips, Lucas Polson, Kevin Rilling, Ian Shaw, Tarique Shotwell, Shelby Flowers, Valerie Hsu, Revanth Sanne, Olivia Smith, Rami Grossman and Daniel Corona.
None of this would be possible without the support of the John Cage Trust, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, the Other Minds Archive in San Francisco, and the scholarly assistance of Holling Smith-Borne, director of the Anne Potter Wilson Music Library.
The project is funded by a Curb Creative Campus Initiative Grant with additional support from Mark Wait, dean, Blair School of Music; Frank Wcislo, dean of The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons at Vanderbilt; Sandra Stahl, Office of the Dean of Students; and JoEl Logiudice, Office of Creative Engagement. Admission is free.
Planned events include:
Thursday, March 29, at 3 p.m., Turner Recital Hall
A panel featuring Merce Cunningham Dance Company Assistant Director of Choreography Jennifer Goggans with Blair's Michael Slayton, Joy Calico and Michael Holland in a discussion on form, composition and creativity in the collaborative works of John Cage and Merce Cunningham.
March 29 and 30
Master classes in Cunningham movement with Jennifer Goggans
Sunday, April 1, 1:30-5 p.m., Blair Choral Rehearsal Hall
Mini-Cage symposium organized by Joy Calico, associate professor of musicology, showcasing Cage's work in various media (music, performance art and film). It features musicologist David W. Patterson, performance artist Amelia Winger-Bearskin, assistant professor of art, and Jonathan Rattner, assistant professor of film studies, who will screen and discuss some of Cage's avant-garde film projects.
Sunday, April 1, Ingram Hall
7:00 p.m. Cage Musicircus in Ingram Lobby and Plaza
7:40 p.m. Pre-concert talk with Professor Robert Fry
8:00 p.m. Blair Percussion VORTEX
celebrates John Cage with former dancers of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, plus Company Rose with Marsha Barsky and Erin Law, choreographers


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I hadn't heard of T. L. Johnson Cigars before, but I have heard of one of their brands — Jose Dominguez. In addition to this one, Johnson produces Palma cigars as well as three distinct lines under the T. L. Johnson brand name: the Legend Reserve Reserve 63, and the Signature line in Connecticut and Maduro. The company is located in Colorado, and it looks like their cigars are distributed primarily in-state.
Tempio is, I believe, their newest line, and since it is produced by one of my favorite boutique manufacturers — La Tradicion Cubana — I was itching to give it a go.
Tempio utilizes a Pennsylvania wrapper leaf (like the JML 1902) in conjunction with an habano binder and Dominican filler. The cigar is made in four sizes:
No. 50 (Robusto) — 5 x 50
No. 52 (Torpedo) — 5 1/2 x 52
No. 56 (Toro) — 5 1/4 x 56
No. 54 (Churchill) — 6 3/4 x 54
Construction Notes
If it weren't for the sloping shoulders and tightly wound pig-tail cap of the Tempio, I'd say this cigar looks like a carpenter's pencil. A big one. Maybe the right size for Shaq if he adds cabinetry to his career profile. The corners are clean and form tight right angles that relax a little as the cigar burns.
The colorado maduro wrapper is smooth but leathery in appearance. The veins appear to have been pressed into the leaf, so it looks rustic but doesn't feel that way to the touch. The draw offers the right amount of resistance, and the burn is surprisingly even for a square pressed stick. The ash is a little bit flaky on the perimeter but holds strong.
Overall Construction: Excellent.
Tasting Notes
The Tempio focuses on a cedar flavor throughout the smoke, but it starts up with some unusual scents that are hard to place. There is a peppery spiciness on the tongue that fades pretty quickly, but the most interesting aspect of the first third are the fleeting sweet spicy notes in the aroma. There seems to be something vaguely fruity about the aroma, but not in a light way — it's a spicy fruitiness that reminds me a little of the scent of mulled wine.
The spice loses some of that interesting sweetness in the mid-section, but it remains sweet in a more conventional way. There is less of a cedar flavor and the smoke becomes a little smoother. The smoke is medium in body, and probably a touch heavier than that in strength. There is a dry papery tartness in the aftertaste.
The last third reintroduces the pepperiness as the flavors begin to char, but even in the last few puffs some sweetness lingers.
I love the complexity of flavors that the Pennsylvania wrapper contributes to the Tempio, and the overall performance of the cigar is very good as well. It's a balanced with just the right amount of spice, and it's never boring. In fact it's a little bit edgy, which I think gives it some aging potential.
The MSRP on this cigar is about as bold as its flavors — around $11.00. I'd like to see that price drop a bit, but there's no arguing with the quality of the stick. The biggest challenge will be locating a Tempio for purchase. It looks like there is at least one online vendor, or if you are lucky enough to live in Colorado, check out the T. L. Johnson website for retail locations.


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Tonight's band "Nadatar" is a reformation of a group from some time ago (a quartet with the alto saxophonist Mike Williams, bassist Ricardo Dos Santos and drummers Dave Wickins or Tom Gordon as well as the reclusive but brilliant trumpeter Paul Edmond). Now regrouped with Julian Siegel (saxophones), plus Tom Farmer and Shane Forbes from "Empirical", the music is swinging modern jazz, very much inspired by Branford Marsalis et al.
People expend a lot of energy asserting opinions as to validity of various styles/genres of jazz. The reference points in tonight's music will be obvious and clear to any jazz lover (bebop, the modal thing, the blues, complex and simple forms), but while fads come and go, it is ok to revisit and re-form good ideas. Nobody ever told Cannonball Adderley or B.B. King not to play the blues!
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nullity of marriage, in law, an unlawful marriage that is either void or voidable because of conditions existing at the time of the marriage. A bigamous or incestuous marriage, for example, is void, and there is no need to bring a suit to obtain a decree declaring it void. However, a decree is necessary to annul voidable marriages. Grounds, generally specified by statute, include fraud or duress preventing legal consent to the marriage and sexual impotence of one spouse that existed at the time the marriage was contracted and that was unknown to the other spouse. The results of nullity of marriage are different from those of divorce. A decree of nullity declares, in effect, that the parties never were married, and at one time it absolved them from all obligations to each other. Today, however, statutes in some states have mitigated the results of annulment, e.g., by making children of the void marriage legitimate and by permitting alimony. See husband and wife.
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text: all kinds of really neat chili recipes by a lady named ann hazard: MexCocina's delicious Chili recipes There are few things that taste better when it's cold outside than chili. This week MexCocina is featuring five different, equally delicious chili recipes. While most of us may not equate "chili con carne" or chili with Mexican food-I have been to several chili cookoffs south of the border, and found them to be entertaining, festive occasions with plenty of Mariachi music, ballet folkórico dancing, cerveza and a wide variety of mouth-watering chilis. Here are my favorite recipes for chili. All use different kinds of beans, ranging from the traditional kidney bean, to fifteen different kinds of beans, to Great Northern white beans, to no beans, to black beans. The first chili recipe, Snappy Tom Fiesta Chili, combines kidney beans with spiced-up ground beef and Snappy Tom. It's as festive as it is scrumptious. Next comes Vegetarian Fifteen Bean Chili. This is one of my all-time favorites. Then we have White Chicken Chili. Yes, it really is white-all the way to the beans! After that, try the beanless New Mexico Green Chile. This delectable chili is made with succulent pork and green chiles. It dates back to the days when the Spaniards first settled in New Mexico. Finally, we have Black Bean Chili, which is made with ground turkey and black beans. It's unique and absolutely delicious. Try any of these recipes. Try them all-a different one every week! By the time you have tasted each one, you'll realize that chili is far more than just a Tex-Mex dish! And you'll be as hooked as I am! SNAPPY TOM FIESTA CHILI This recipe was created by my boyfriend, Terry. He's not sure I should share it with the world, but it's so good that I have to. It's very good and very easy too. Takes about two hours to make and will feed eight people. 2 ½ lbs ground beef 1 large red onion, chopped 1 large white onion, chopped 2 tbsp olive oil 6 cloves garlic, minced 2 green bell peppers, chopped 4 cans Snappy Tom 2 1 lb, 11 oz cans kidney beans (drained) or 1 lb bag dried kidney beans, soaked overnight and drained 3 medium tomatoes, diced 2 tbsp American chili powder (or more, depending on how hot you like it) 9626 Salt and pepper to taste 1 bunch fresh cilantro, chopped and stems removed Saltine crackers In large Dutch over, heat olive oil to medium heat. Add onions and sauté until translucent. Add garlic and continue cooking. Add ground beef and cook until browned. Drain off excess fat. Add bell peppers, Snappy Tom, tomatoes, chili powder, cilantro, salt and pepper. Heat to boiling. Cover and reduce heat to low, letting simmer for an hour. Serve with crumbled saltine crackers on top and get ready for the compliments! VEGETARIAN FIFTEEN BEAN CHILI This super-easy, healthy and delicious chili will please vegetarians and unsuspecting carnivores alike! It serves six to eight and takes about 2 ½ hours to make-after you've soaked the beans overnight! (Don't forget that part, please! I did once, and although it's a long and rather entertaining story, it certainly was not one of my more memorable memories as a supposed "chef.") 1 16 oz bag "15 bean soup" (beans only) 2 tbsp olive oil 2 large onions, chopped 3 garlic cloves, minced 1 large red bell pepper, seeded and chopped 1 large green bell pepper, seeded and chopped 1 cup chopped celery 1 tsp American chili powder ¼ to 1/3 cup (to taste) chipotle chiles in adobo, pureed 1 tbsp salt 1 tsp pepper 2 1 pound 12 ounce can Italian tomatoes in puree 2 tbsp oregano Garnish: 2 cups grated cheddar cheese and 1 chopped onion Soak beans overnight according to directions on package. Drain and rinse thorougly in colander. In Dutch oven, brown onion, red and green bell peppers, celery and garlic in olive oil. Add beans and all remaining ingredients and bring to boil over high heat. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for at least two hours or until beans are tender and all flavors well-blended. Serve in bowls and garnish with grated cheese and chopped onion. Add a dozen or so hot, buttered tortillas to round out the meal. WHITE CHICKEN CHILI What a wondrous change of pace this chili is. It's as white as a blizzard, with a few hints of Mexican green in the chiles! Try it for sure. It will become a family favorite! Serves eight and takes about two hours to make. 2 lb boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cooked and cut in chunks 4 15 oz cans Great Northern (white) beans (do not drain!) or 1 16 oz bag Great Northern (white beans) soaked overnight in water and drained 1 tsp olive oil 5 medium white onions, chopped 6 cloves garlic, finely chopped 4 tsp cumin ¼ tsp white pepper 4 cups chicken broth 1 tsp oregano 1536 1 4 oz diced jalapenos (optional and to taste-they're hot!) 1 16 oz package cream cheese To garnish: Dollops of sour cream and 1 cup diced onions Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Cook all of onion except one cup with garlic until translucent. Mix in spices and chiles. Cook about five minutes. Move into large dutch oven and add all other ingredients, except garnishes. Cook for 20 minutes to an hour. Garnish each bowl with a with dollop of sour cream and a spoonful of the reserved chopped onions. GREEN CHILE NEW MEXICO STYLE This New Mexico staple is famous all over the southwest U.S. and parts of Mexico. It's simple to prepare and the combination of flavors, after simmering together on your stove and filling your house with their aroma, will have your mouth watering in anticipation! Serves eight and takes about two hours to prepare. 1 1/2 pounds very lean pork, cut in large chunks 4 3 1/2 ounce or 2 7 ounce cans diced green chiles 2 medium onions, chopped 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 tbsp corn or canola oil 2 quarts beef broth 2 tbsp oregano 1 tbsp basil 2 bay leaves 1/2 to 1 cup salsa verde 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce 1 tsp seasoned salt 1/2 tsp pepper In large Dutch oven sauté pork, green chiles, onions and garlic in oil. Stir in beef broth and all other ingredients. Cook over medium high heat until boiling. Cover, reduce heat and simmer for two to three hours. This may be kept in the refrigerator several days or part of it may be frozen for later use. TURKEY BLACK BEAN CHILI Black beans, turkey, cumin and lime juice make this recipe totally unique and perfectly delicious. Takes about two hours to prepare and will feed eight people. 2 white onions, chopped 4 cloves garlic, finely chopped 1 tbsp olive oil 1 ½ lb ground turkey 4 15 oz cans black beans (do not drain!) 2 1 pound 12 oz can Italian tomatoes in puree 3 tbsp American chili powder 1 tbsp oregano 1 tbsp basil 1 tsp cumin 1 tbsp lime juice Garnish: 1 cup grated Jack cheese and sprigs of fresh cilantro In a large Dutch oven, heat olive oil to medium heat. Add onions and garlic and sauté until translucent. Add turkey and cook until brown. Stir in all other ingredients and heat to boiling. Reduce heat to low and cover, simmering for at least 60 minutes, until all flavors are thoroughly blended. Garnish with grated cheese and a few sprigs of cilantro. Recipe and tips provided by Ann Hazard.


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02 July, 2021
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E-pharmacies The Ministry of Health sent "show cause" letters to at least 20 businesses in February 2023 for online drug sales, including Tata-1mg, Flipkart, Apollo, PharmEasy, Amazon, and Reliance Netmeds. What is e-pharmacy? E-pharmacy refers to the purchasing and selling of drugs and other pharmaceutical products through a
Punchhi Commission Report The Punchhi Commission's report on relations between the federal government and its constituent states will now be reviewed for state responses, according to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). Historical Background: A Commission on Centre-State Relations was established by the Indian government,
Indo-German Relations Olaf Scholz, the Chancellor of Germany, recently paid a bilateral visit to India. It is Scholz's first trip to India after taking office as German Chancellor in December 2021, ending Angela Merkel's illustrious 16-year reign. About the news: The visit of the German chancellor is significant because i
India Denmark Cooperation During the "India-Denmark: Partners for Green and Sustainable Development Conference" in New Delhi, the Union Minister for Environment, Forests, and Climate Change said that India and Denmark can work together to show that reaching ambitious climate and sustainable energy targets is possible. Since the Gr
Mob lynching and Cow Vigilantism The recent lynching and burning of two men in Haryana on the basis of allegations of unlawful cow slaughter, smuggling, or transportation bring attention to the problem of mob lynching. About cow vigilantism: Mob attacks carried out in the guise of "cow protection" primarily target Mus
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text: Employees are often unsettled by change in their organisations. Shutterstock June 8, 2017 Major change at work can trigger loss and grief. Organisations must accept this Mias de Klerk, Stellenbosch University Many large scale organisational changes end up as failures most of the time employers are blamed for being resistant to change. This may be convenient, but it doesn't deal with the real issues.


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http://mmajunkie.com MINNEAPOLIS – Justin Edwards has a signature career victory, and it came in remarkably swift fashion for "Fast Eddie."
Facing his biggest-name opponent to date, the welterweight locked on an arm-in guillotine choke and choked unconscious veteran Josh Neer.
The UFC on FX 5 welterweight contest, which took place Friday at Minneapolis' Target Center, aired on FX following preliminary bouts on FUEL TV.
With the fighters in the clinch, Edwards locked on the choke, left his feet, wrapped the body and torqued the choke. Neer initially stood upright as he tried to break free of the hold, but he ultimately fell to his knees after losing consciousness.
The upset win came just 45 seconds into the fight.
"I thought it was going to be a very exciting fight, and I thought I was going to push the pace," said Edwards, who appeared in a bit of shock. "I didn't think it'd be over so early, but I wanted the challenge of Josh Neer, and I got it, and I appreciate the UFC for giving me the opportunity."
Edwards hinted that he was prepared for the exact scenario.
"I know he baits people for guillotines and defends them well, but he never faced mine," Edwards said.
Edwards (8-2 MMA, 2-2 UFC), an Ohio-based fighter who trains jiu-jitsu with Jorge Gurgel, has evened up his UFC record since his stint on "The Ultimate Fighter 13." Neer (33-12-1 MMA, 6-8 UFC), meanwhile, has dropped two straight since a six-fight win streak that helped him get back into the octagon.
Up-to-the-minute UFC on FX 5 results include:
- Justin Edwards def. Josh Neer via technical submission (guillotine choke) – Round 1, 0:45
- Michael Johnson def. Danny Castillo via knockout (punches) – Round 2, 1:06
- Mike Pierce def. Aaron Simpson via knockout (punch) – Round 2, 0:29
- Marcus LeVesseur def. Carlo Prater via split decision (28-29, 29-28, 29-28)
- Jacob Volkmann def. Shane Roller via submission (rear-naked choke) – Round 1, 2:38
- Diego Nunes def. Bart Palaszewski via unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 30-27)
- Darren Uyenoyama def. Phil Harris via submission (rear-naked choke) – Round 2, 3:38
For complete coverage of UFC on FX 5, stay tuned to the UFC Events section of the site.
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4441.0 - Voluntary Work, Australia, 2010
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 01/12/2011
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More than one-third of Australians did voluntary work last year, with more women volunteering than men, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
Women more likely to volunteer than men
In 2010, 36% of Australians aged 18 years and over participated in voluntary work - 38% of women and 34% of men.
Despite the pressures of balancing work and family life, people who were employed were most likely to be volunteers - 44% of those with part-time work and 38% with full-time work, compared to 20% of those unemployed and 31% of those not in the labour force. Women working part-time had the highest rate of volunteering (49%). For parents with school-aged children, those in a couple relationship had the highest rate of participation in voluntary work (55%).
Sport and physical recreation organisations were the most common type that people volunteered for, accounting for 63% of volunteering fathers and 47% of volunteering mothers with children. People over 65 most commonly volunteered for welfare and community organisations (37%).
Volunteering runs in the family - 66% of volunteers reported that their parents had undertaken voluntary work and volunteers were more likely to have participated in group or community activities as a child.
As well as volunteering through organisations, 64% of volunteers had also provided informal assistance in the last 4 weeks to people outside of their household, such as relatives, friends and neighbours. Volunteers were also more likely than non-volunteers to provide care to someone with a disability, long-term health condition or problems with old age (27% compared to 17% for non-volunteers).
Further details are available in Voluntary Work, Australia, 2010 (cat. no. 4441.0), available free of charge on the ABS website.
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Once again, reality beats fiction: If your name is Jerry Jalava, the USB finger is more than just a concept. It's the real thing embedded in your own hand, carrying a Billix Linux distribution.
Jerry had an accident while biking, losing his finger. He got an artificial finger made of silicon, and instead of just giving it logical sexual uses, he decided to make it even more useful and embed a 2GB USB drive inside. The result is equally as gross as is fascinating. [Flickr via Bergie]


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This phyllo dough recipe is savory and a bit unexpected. Shavuot recipes are a great way to try out new kinds of appetizers and side dishes – phyllo dough is delicious, especially with cheese.
¼ cup butter
1 onion, finely chopped
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1 cup cream cheese, softened
1 cup cottage cheese
3 eggs
2 cups artichokes, chopped
¼ cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
½ cup cracker crumbs
16 sheets filo dough
½ cup butter, melted
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Melt butter in a frying pan and sauté onions until sauce. Add garlic and sauté briefly. Beat cream cheese and cottage cheese together. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Stir in onion-garlic mixture. Add artichokes, cheese and cracker crumbs. Brush light coating of melted butter across bottom of 9 x 13-inch pan. Cover with 2 sheets of filo, then brush with melted butter. Repeat until you have used 8 sheets. Spread artichoke mixture across filo. Top with remaining 8 sheets, brushing with butter every two. Bake for 45 minutes.
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August 8th, 2012
Who is Betty White's crush?
With a show business career spanning 63 years and counting, is there anything Betty White still wants to do?
"My answer to every question is Robert Redford," White told CNN, "but I've never met him and I don't want to meet him. I've taken his name in vain so many times I'd be embarrassed if I met him."
White spoke to CNN while promoting Tuesday's release of "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax" on DVD/Blu-ray and Digital Download.
She said she was drawn to "The Lorax" because of "the environmental aspect" of the story. In the big screen adaptation of the 1971 children's classic – which Dr. Seuss himself named as his favorite work – young Ted (Zac Efron) sets out to find a real Truffula Tree for a girl he likes. White plays Ted's Grammy Norma, and "The Lorax" also features the voices of Danny DeVito and Taylor Swift.
"I think it's a beautiful story," White continued. "The whole production is beautiful so I was delighted to be brought into it."
Is White anything like Grammy Norma in real life?
"Well probably," she said, "but I don't realize it. I think of myself more like, you know, the glamour girl. A gorgeous, gorgeous person and somehow I don't think that equates with how other people see me."
The seven-time Emmy-winner recently received her 21st nomination for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program thanks to her work on "Betty White's Off Their Rockers," the NBC series she stars in and executive produces.
White said she doesn't worry about winning because "the nominations are the excitement. When that call comes in the morning, that's pretty great… to be included in that group is a big honor… I won't win but I'll be up there in the group and that's a lovely group."
White is gearing up for a fourth season of "Hot in Cleveland." The TV Land sitcom, which is also Emmy-nominated - for makeup and editing - co-stars Valerie Bertinelli, Wendy Malick, Jane Leeves and White.
"I must say," White noted, "to luck in to another comedy like that after 'The Golden Girls' and 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' - to get, again, a group like this… we all love each other so! We miss each other when we don't see each other so we're all dying to get back to work."
White turned 90 this year, and the television special honoring the occasion, "Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl," received Emmy nominations for Outstanding Variety Special and Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special.
One of the highlights of the birthday event was President Obama's video message asking to see White's long-form birth certificate.
White got to meet President Obama in person during a White House visit back in June.
"It was marvelous," she said. "First of all, they took me on an in-depth tour of the White House before I went into his office, and we can be so proud of it. It is so gorgeous and they have this wonderful lady... she knows the history of just about every little trinket. It's just fascinating."
For White, a longtime animal rights activist, the highlight of her visit to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue was meeting the First Dog.
"Of course I was dying to meet Bo," she said. "I walked into this room, and here is - I didn't know he was there - here he is coming over to greet me like an old friend; and he jumps up on the couch. So I sat down on the couch and he stretched across my lap and I spent a half-hour with the First Dog stretched across my lap. I should be talking about meeting the president, not meeting Bo, but I happen to have a bias in that department. And then I met President Obama and he was just wonderful. He couldn't have been nicer or more down-to-earth. It was really a lovely experience."
White recalled waiting outside the Oval Office for President Obama.
"I was with my secretary and my agent," said White. "We were all out in a waiting room and then they called me in to another inner room; so I sat in there for about five minutes and then I was called into yet another room as the president came out of the Oval Office and he said 'You - you get a kiss.' And he came over and kissed me and took me into the Oval Office where we had our picture taken. He is just a real charmer. I was very impressed. He made me feel so comfortable and not awkward or anything like that and I tend to feel awkward," she added with a laugh.
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PHILADELPHIA—A massive pile of salt used to clear icy roads has fallen on a worker at a suburban Philadelphia storage facility, crushing and killing him.
Falls Township police say the accident happened Thursday afternoon hours before a massive snowstorm was set to arrive in the area.
The 100-foot-tall pile of salt toppled over and trapped the man, who was working a backhoe. Rescue crews were dispatched but couldn't save him.
There's no word on what may have caused the accident.


text: Tennessee Conservation Projects © Cecil Calloway Tennessee is part of the Mississippi Flyway and provides important winter habitat for waterfowl that are produced in the Prairie Pothole Region and Great Lakes states. In most years, Tennessee winters significant numbers of mallards and wood ducks across the state. Western Tennessee comprises an important portion of the Mississippi Alluvial Valley, known regionally as the Delta. Historically, flooded forests of the Delta provided reliable, high-quality habitat for thousands of mallards, wood ducks, and other waterfowl. DU has worked to conserve more than 46,000 acres of waterfowl habitat throughout Tennessee. Our goal is to perpetually secure habitat and the future of Tennessee as a key wintering area in North America. Your support of DU will help us achieve that goal. View the state conservation report in Tennessee. Tennessee Projects ()


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Johann Cruyff (on ball), Berti Vogts (left), The Netherlands vs. Germany, World Cup final, 16 July 1974: photo by Rainer Mittelstädt (Deutsches Bundesarchiv)
Nearly all the sports practised nowadays are competitive. You play to win, and the game has little meaning unless you do your utmost to win. On the village green, where you pick up sides and no feeling of local patriotism is involved, it is possible to play simply for the fun and exercise: but as soon as the question of prestige arises, as soon as you feel that you and some larger unit will be disgraced if you lose, the most savage combative instincts are aroused. Anyone who has played even in a school football match knows this. At the international level sport is frankly mimic warfare. But the significant thing is not the behaviour of the players but the attitude of the spectators: and, behind the spectators, of the nations who work themselves into furies over these absurd contests, and seriously believe — at any rate for short periods — that running, jumping and kicking a ball are tests of national virtue.
As soon as strong feelings of rivalry are aroused, the notion of playing the game according to the rules always vanishes. People want to see one side on top and the other side humiliated, and they forget that victory gained through cheating or through the intervention of the crowd is meaningless. Even when the spectators don't intervene physically they try to influence the game by cheering their own side and "rattling" opposing players with boos and insults. Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
Instead of blah-blahing about the clean, healthy rivalry of the football field and the great part played by the Olympic Games in bringing the nations together, it is more useful to inquire how and why this modern cult of sport arose. Most of the games we now play are of ancient origin, but sport does not seem to have been taken very seriously between Roman times and the nineteenth century. Even in the English public schools the games cult did not start till the later part of the last century. Dr Arnold, generally regarded as the founder of the modern public school, looked on games as simply a waste of time. Then, chiefly in England and the United States, games were built up into a heavily-financed activity, capable of attracting vast crowds and rousing savage passions, and the infection spread from country to country. It is the most violently combative sports, football and boxing, that have spread the widest. There cannot be much doubt that the whole thing is bound up with the rise of nationalism — that is, with the lunatic modern habit of identifying oneself with large power units and seeing everything in terms of competitive prestige. Also, organised games are more likely to flourish in urban communities where the average human being lives a sedentary or at least a confined life, and does not get much opportunity for creative labour. In a rustic community a boy or young man works off a good deal of his surplus energy by walking, swimming, snowballing, climbing trees, riding horses, and by various sports involving cruelty to animals, such as fishing, cock-fighting and ferreting for rats. In a big town one must indulge in group activities if one wants an outlet for one's physical strength or for one's sadistic impulses. Games are taken seriously in London and New York, and they were taken seriously in Rome and Byzantium: in the Middle Ages they were played, and probably played with much physical brutality, but they were not mixed up with politics nor a cause of group hatreds.
If you wanted to add to the vast fund of ill-will existing in the world at this moment, you could hardly do it better than by a series of football matches between Jews and Arabs, Germans and Czechs, Indians and British, Russians and Poles, and Italians and Jugoslavs, each match to be watched by a mixed audience of 100,000 spectators. I do not, of course, suggest that sport is one of the main causes of international rivalry; big-scale sport is itself, I think, merely another effect of the causes that have produced nationalism.
Lokomotiv Leipzig fans before their team's encounter with Dynamo Schweinn in the FBGB-Pokal in 1990: photo by Ralf Pätzold, 14 April 1990 (Deutsches Bundesarchiv)
George Orwell: The Sporting Spirit, from Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays, 1950


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Bark & Co., the doggie-themed technology company best known for its dog treat-delivering subscription business BarkBox, and more recently, its vet care-on-demand service BarkCare, has just closed on 15 million in Series B funding. The company raised $10 million in inside round led by previous investor Resolute.vc, along with RRE, BoxGroup, Lerer Ventures, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, Slow Ventures, Daher Capital, CAA, and Vast Ventures, with the remaining in debt financing from City National Bank.
Explains co-founder Matt Meeker, the company – cash-flow positive since Q4 2013 – actually had a few options on the table. There's was the opportunity to raise a growth round, or sell to a larger company. (Word has it a big-name pet retailer was interested in an acquisition.)
"We kind of went this middle route," he says. "[Investors] made an offer that let us put a little bit of money in the company, and we coupled that with a line of credit. Basically, it's cushion in case the world makes a turn on us that's unexpected, or if other opportunities come along," adds Meeker.
The new round increases Bark & Co.'s valuation by 10-11 times over its previous A round, from April 2013. As of February this year, the company reported a $25 million revenue run rate, and is projecting to grow that 3 or 4 times over by next year, at which point it will consider a further growth round.
Another reason it wants to hold off on a larger growth round is to give a couple of its newer businesses more time to scale – and yes, Bark & Co. has several of those. People really love their dogs, and Bark & Co. capitalizes on that through a number of different avenues.
Founded in 2011 by Meeker along with Henrik Werdelin and Carly Strife, Bark & Co. initially focused on subscription-based e-commerce via BarkBox. That service sends out a monthly box of dog treats and toys, based on your dog's size. Today, BarkBox has 200,000 paying customers who pay anywhere from $18 to $29 per month (depending on their subscription) for a box a goodies. The company makes about $20 per box, but delivers $40 to $50 in retail value, says Meeker.
Subscribers, once they join, seem to stick around, too. 75% commit to a longer-term plan, and retention is "well north" of 90%. A few months ago, Bark & Co. even figured out how to get more money out of this enthusiastic dog-lovin' user base by offering the option to add a toy for an additional $9 per month. And 20% of its customers signed up.
Meanwhile, Bark & Co.'s newly launched vet care service BarkCare has made hundreds house calls since its February debut in New York. Offering on-demand vet appointments for more routine matters, like puppy shots, rabies vaccines and other minor ailments, the company has since expanded to the San Francisco Bay Area and has doubled the number of visits in its second quarter over the first.
The plan now is to do the volume of a normal city vet practice – each city at around $2 million per year – before expanding the business into other markets.
The BarkPost
And if that's not enough, Bark & Co. also runs a content portal called The BarkPost, which has grown from 1 million visits in December to now 10.5 million visits as of last month. That business, which also serves as lead gen for BarkCare and BarkBox, is only now starting to generate revenue through sponsored posts from brands like FreshPet, Roomba, 1-800 Flowers and others. The site was run by a team of one all last year, and now has a 4-person crew, including its first biz hire in April.
The company also recently rolled out a new mobile application for dog adoption called BarkBuddy, which works sort of like a "Tinder for dogs" – meaning that you swipe left or right to indicate whether or not you love the doggie's photo that displays. When you like a dog, you're then pointed to the local shelter where the dog can be adopted, thanks to its integration with pet data aggregator, Pet Finder.
BarkBuddy saw over 100,000 downloads in its first month, and has led to at least 100 adoptions. (Bark & Co. doesn't have a direct means of tracking this.)
Some time later this year, BarkBuddy will start helping tie Bark & Co.'s businesses together by offering pet "test drives" where you get to take home a dog for a weekend to see if it's a fit for you and your family. The idea is that the dog would be vetted via BarkCare vets, and you could order a bunch of starter products like leashes or bowls through Bark & Co. as part of this package deal.
"It comes from a place of trying to get more dogs into more homes," Meeker explains. "About 40% of time, [fosters] fail – they never bring the dog back to the shelter, they just end up keeping it."
If Bark & Co. can get people to commit for the weekend, they believe a number of people will end up falling in love with the dog and want to keep it.
More To Come, Including BarkCam
Another app just around the corner, BarkCam, will be just a bit of fun – you can dress up your doggie's photos with filters, stickers, quotes and meme text.
The funding round doesn't change much in terms of Bark & Co.'s plans to grow the business or its head count, notes Meeker. "The operating plans hasn't really changed at all," he says. "We'll keep adding the people we need and building the businesses at the pace we grow…it's just nice to have [the funding] for opportunities that come up."
Today, Bark & Co. has grown to 54 employees, up from 45 at the beginning of the year, the majority based in New York. Of course, if you count the number of dogs hanging around the office on any given day, though, you can up that number by another dozen or so.


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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requires that all health care providers, including audiologists and speech-language pathologists, obtain a National Provider Identifier (NPI). All health care providers and organizations are eligible to receive NPIs.
Getting an NPI is free — not having one can be costly.
For more news and updates, go to the NPI page on the CMS website.
The NPI is the health care provider identification system adopted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as part of the implementation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). All health care providers that are considered covered entities under HIPAA, and those who file claims electronically or use a clearinghouse to bill insurance, are required to apply for an NPI. All other health care providers are eligible to receive an NPI if they desire.
The NPI will eliminate the need for health care providers to use different identification numbers when conducting business with multiple health plans. Many health plans, including Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurance plans, and all health care clearinghouses are now required to accept and use NPIs.
Even if you do not bill for services, you may need to disclose your NPI to those providers who do (e.g., providers who order lab tests or send patients for diagnostic testing must be identified on the lab's or testing facility's claims). Without the NPI, claims may be adversely affected, with payment delayed or possibly denied.
In other words, getting an NPI is free - not having one could be costly.
There is no charge to get an NPI. Audiologists and speech-language pathologists can apply online for their NPI, free of charge, by applying online or by contacting the NPI Enumerator to request a paper application. It takes less than 5 minutes to apply online and the number is issued within a few minutes.
Note: The provider type is 23 (speech, language, hearing service provider). The taxonomy number for audiologist is 231H00000X. The taxonomy number for SLP is 235Z00000X.
Clinical Fellows without a state license are to apply for an NPI as a student. Under the NPI system, a student is defined as "An individual who is enrolled in an organized health care education/training program leading to a degree, certification, registration and/or licensure to provide health care." When the state license is conferred, the applicant will need to update their taxonomy code. The student taxonomy code (needed to complete the application) is 390200000X.
For further information about obtaining an NPI, please visit the NPI page on the CMS website.
Medicare Provider Enrollment and NPIs
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