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Fun at Trump Tower today. And here's how it ended…..
A compelling 3 hours of an Idiot v. NyPD plus hours of commercial free, free Trump ad, priceless.
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Fun at Trump Tower today. And here's how it ended…..
NYPD takes Trump Tower climber into custody #TrumpClimber https://t.co/XX2ME1FiD9 pic.twitter.com/cDISieJAnt
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) August 10, 2016
A compelling 3 hours of an Idiot v. NyPD plus hours of commercial free, free Trump ad, priceless.
Shep's archived coverage via FB….
In other news…..
MSM #Election2016 plan:
Trump says mean things & hurts widdle snowflakes feelings, not POTUS qualified.
Hillary is God. #tcot
— Geoff Caldwell (@geoffcaldwell) August 10, 2016
I hate to brag, I did spend 1k for 4 tickets to see this play on Broadway a few years ago.
Trump live in Sunrise, FL…
African American supporters with shirts on that say "Republicans are not racists" at #Trump rally in Ft Lauderdale!! pic.twitter.com/zyBN1YhRvX
— ALWAYS TRUMP! (@Always_Trump) August 11, 2016
This was really a great group. Trump gave them a nice nod during his speech. Of course, the audience was mostly "white" but we were surprised at how many "people of color" were in attendance…and enjoying themselves and having a great time. Lots of Spanish being spoken around us where we were. And lots of "younger" people…that's to say, younger than us…..really though, quite a few 20-30 somethings around us…and also very vocal and having a great time. The security was awesome and you really felt safe.
From local news…Who is Steve from Virginia?
@MSNBC Let's take a moment to appreciate the size of Trump's crowd in Ft. Lauderdale tonight!! #Trump2016 pic.twitter.com/ZhNzZLi9rM
— Mom (@sunnynodak) August 11, 2016
Welp, tonight he said Obama's middle name (you know that's a no no depending on who says it) and that he & Hillary founded ISIS.
Bwahahahahahaha! Best.Election.Ever!!!!
Telling the truth; calling a spade a spade. Perhaps he will actually be able to scare up some shovel ready jobs. Obama just poured all our money down the rat holes of his corrupt bundlers and cronies.
No sissy pants here!!! 😆
Reuters just announced that Secret Service never spoke to me or my campaign. Made up story by @CNN is a hoax. Totally dishonest.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 10, 2016
Media on Twitter all over the fact that Mark Foley was at rally, sitting on stage behind Trump just like Mateen behind Hillary. Here we go, the new story.
Be very, very quiet Trump is hunting hack media. Watch as they wonder if they should take the bait . . . https://t.co/QeG6gnqm3c
— Dancing Queen ♕ (@TheAngieNC2) August 11, 2016
My first that when I read about Fuhrman.
Bill stands right up on the stage next to Hillary.
Am I the only person in America who read her Shakespeare? This tees me off so much –stupid should hurt.
The Cuck is our new pop-up bespoke men's interest site, for men https://t.co/P2TsWnTMui pic.twitter.com/HJNNRyvvjZ
— Gawker (@Gawker) August 10, 2016
@Gawker Cuck isn't cock (rooster) but cuckoo bird that lays eggs in other birds' nests Seriously READ A FUCKING BOOK! #Shakespeare4Dummies
— Dancing Queen ♕ (@TheAngieNC2) August 11, 2016
Maybe they are just bad spellers? Auto correct? Ate too many boxes of Cocoa Puffs? Never noticed that a rooster does not pop out of a cuckoo clock?
You can't fix stupid.
No matter how many books they read, they'd have to actually UNDERSTAND what they read.
Tim Kaine attended a New Orleans fundraiser today which raised at least 80K per campaign aide
— Pat Ward (@WardDPatrick) August 11, 2016
That's a lot of time on his knees. https://t.co/WcJjy5NfoG
— Dancing Queen ♕ (@TheAngieNC2) August 11, 2016
STOP it! I nearly choked on my breakfast !!!
I need to step away from my keyboard for a moment. 😀
These guys and gals are hilarious. 😀
I should have known better to drink my coffee or eat my breakfast while reading at TCH. 😀
When CNN tells you Hillary is ahead let this sink in.I've seen this first hand.Hillary isn't winning she's stealing. pic.twitter.com/3BLvkmo2Vm
— ☆DR.OLMO☆ (@realDrOlmo) August 10, 2016
Bernie had bigger crowds too. Stealing is right, we watched that happen during the Dem primaries. Just a warm up for the general.
Offensive as hell, but funny.
I couldn't help feel sorry for Mr. Foley when I read his interview. Some folks in the media should read it too. Instead, they are getting giddy about Foley being at the Trump rally last night.
Mark Foley talks publicly for first time about surviving scandal
Tomorrow's cover: Human fly plucked from Trump Tower https://t.co/hUskN2RTFi pic.twitter.com/V09eSadSkY
— New York Post (@nypost) August 11, 2016
Still an #nypd presence at #TrumpTower, after 19yo managed to scale 21 floors Wednesday. #abc7ny pic.twitter.com/uPcOVSpbu8
— Darla Miles (@DarlaMiles7) August 11, 2016
LOL, Dice !
Michelle Fields, the gift that keeps on giving.
BUSTED! Michelle Fields of the Huffington Post Caught in Plagiarism Scandalhttps://t.co/yEMcR4rJ1q
— Mike Cernovich (@Cernovich) August 11, 2016
Her boyfriend wants Republicans to work out a negotiated surrender to Hillary.
Really good article, something I have been thinking about for some time, the impact that that the new tech giants are having on society. It isn't necessarily good. They are are the source of some of our biggest problems.
Our antitrust laws have been neutered at the trade commission regulatory approval level since Reagan. Google, Facebook, broadcast / print media conglomorates could use a bit of old fashioned trust bustin'.
We went to the Trump event last night in Sunrise/Ft. Lauderdale. Neither of us had ever been to a presidential rally before. It was an amazing experience. Huge crowd…great speakers…wonderful people…well-controlled…and The Donald was very good. He brought along some goofy "statistics" signs that were actually very amusing and great props. One of them had a picture of him and Hillary on it and he commented that he told his staff to pick a very nice picture of Hillary. Great evening. This is not an election between the "lesser of two evils"…there is only one evil.
Great report ! I posted the live stream of your rally above to show you how the rest of us watched it 😉 I know being there is so much more exciting, especially that you are sharing the event with like minds. It's a surreal experience. Thanks for sharing.
The really fascinating thing to us was the size of the crowd. As a city planner, I'm fairly good at estimating crowds and at 6:30 PM I guessed there were about 8-9,000 people already in the BB&T Center. Trump didn't come out until a little after 8:30 or so and the arena was about 90-95% full, so there must have been been around 15,000 people as it holds 20,000. You have to scratch your head wondering how he can be so far behind in the polls. As I have said before, the only good "poll" is from Poland!
Mike Huckabee was also very good and very gracious and humorous.
Huck is a fun speaker, that must have been a bonus for you. That's a lot of people for Debbie Wasserman Schultz country (I think that's her district?)
Really appreciate your report, driguana. The closest he'll come to Chicago Could be Champaign or Springfield. Maybe he won't bother with IL. So it s really fun reading yours and others' accounts. ❤
I bet he'll hit the Chicago area to avenge the SJW's that shut him down the last time he visited. 🙂
This evil is taking the place. of the other evil that is leaving. (I hope). 😯
Those goofy signs have been dubbed "Trump Cards" on Twitter!.
Glad you had a good time.
I don't tell you often enough how much I ❤ you, driguana! xoxo
Aw, coming from Venus, the Goddess of Love, that's quite a compliment. Thank you. I love you, too!!!
Back to School Shopping Time https://t.co/Y0ujsthgVc
— Book Horde (@BookHorde) August 11, 2016
Trump Tower climber taken to Bellevue hospital after capture https://t.co/wOL79EajMq pic.twitter.com/4ip8lBf1gq
— Eyewitness News (@ABC7NY) August 11, 2016
In the rubber room, At the happy farm. 😀
Google is trying to block this, so I hope the video is still there. It's the same old, same old, but when put together it looks serious.
IS serious. These are neurological problems from that sinus thrombosis episode. Add that to the prizm glasses, the eye tracking problems.
D'uh – Because the other side is petty and intolerant.
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Wanted to share one more observation from the Trump rally last night in Sunrise/Ft. Lauderdale. As far as we could tell, there were only three disruptions last night. One involved a large pink banner that was quickly dispensed with. The second ended with a short physical confrontation between two guys and the third was a bunch of young guys that were quickly hustled out. Prior to the event actually starting, there was a brief presentation on how to peacefully and fairly deal with disruptive demonstrators. They advised everyone to not touch another person but to point in the direction of the disruption and yell…"Trump Trump Trump". It reminded me of the end of the remake of "Invasion of The Body Snatchers" when you think all is well but Donald Sutherland suddenly points to his former friend and opens his mouth screaming…quite effective. There were no incidents outside of the event and we all felt very safe goign back to our cars.
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romantic ideals (i do get my satisfaction)
i started to compose a list of things i want to do before i die. i know the list will change, grow, and expand over my lifetime, but for now, here's what i've come up with:
•see new england in the fall
•see kyoto in the spring
•run through central park in the rain
•go snowshoeing
•eat a 7+ course meal
•visit india
•start a foundation for the arts
•have a beautiful library in my home
i am not very ambitious and i love to take pleasure in what i already have, or what i'm currently experiencing. this weekend i went to my friend's cabin in grand marais. it was really really beautiful up there. crisp and refreshing... no bugs or bats to annoy me (a few beavers, but jared chased them away with his little girly scream). i helped shan quilt, hiked a bit, chatted with natives, played killer bunnies (which i highly recommend) and enjoyed the company of my friends and the outdoors.
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Foreign Press Review (05.12-11.12)
While experts continue to look for a future strategy and common ground in the Russia-US relations, US officials have become obsessed with debating Russia's alleged meddling in the US presidential elections. In the meantime, President-elect Donald Trump came into direct confrontation with leading congressmen, who are to launch a wide-ranging investigation into Russia's alleged activities, and intelligence agencies. According to the Washington Post and the New York Times, CIA changed its opinion and concluded in a secret assessment that Russia had not only interfered with the electoral process but also aimed at helping Mr Trump win the presidency. It is worth noting that ahead of the elections the US intel community did not find any connections between Trump and Russia, sharing a version that Russia's aim was to undermine Americans' faith in country's democracy.
The president-elect team already commented on the findings by the intelligence, which were published in the mainstream media, claiming that "these are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history. It's now time to move on and "Make America Great Again". Moreover, last week, during his interview to Time magazine, Donald Trump emphasized yet again that he doesn't believe in Russia's interference and thinks that the claims were politically driven. Such collision can become a sensitive part of the US future policy, as in January Mr Trump will enter the Oval Office and lead those intelligence agencies as a president.
Besides, the media payed a lot of attention to the situation in Syria. A number of reports asserted that Assad's government forces, backed by Russia, is to win a major victory recapturing Aleppo from rebels (Russia's Ministry of Defense said that 93% of the city is already under government control). Journalists highlighted that this victory will strengthen Russia's hand making it a key regional powerbroker and hence will be a sign of the end of US hegemony in the region.
Meanwhile, on Friday Richard McLaren presented the results of his investigation into Russia's doping. He said that more than 1000 Russia's athletes were involved into a "institutional conspiracy" sponsored by Russia's Sports Ministry. The Ministry has already pledged to thoroughly examine the McLaren report and claimed its readiness to cooperate in fighting doping with zero-tolerance. However, it rejected with all responsibility the accusation of a state-run doping system. In addition, the Ministry pointed to the fact that Russia's law enforcement agencies have been already investigating the circumstances listed in the first McLaren report and will start their probe into the second part shortly.
Russia-US relations
Trump Again Rejects U.S. Spies' Conclusion That Russia Hacked Election
By Ken Dilanian
NBC News
President-elect Donald Trump is doubling down on his repudiation of the intelligence agencies he will soon lead, telling Time magazine he still believes the unified U.S. government assessment that Russia sought to interfere in the presidential election was not only wrong, but politicized.
Nuclear War Is No Longer "Unthinkable" for Russia
By Nikolas K. Gvosdev
The National Interest
Putin is warning the United States to back off.
Trump really can't do much to reduce tensions with Putin's Russia
By Carroll Colley
The Hill
As the shock of Donald Trump's stunning victory on Nov. 8 fades, the future of the U.S.-Russian bilateral relationship will occupy a prominent position in Trump's foreign policy agenda.
Republicans ready to launch wide-ranging probe of Russia, despite Trump's stance
By Karoun Demirjian
The Washington Post
Leading Senate Republicans are preparing to launch a coordinated and wide-ranging probe into Russia's alleged meddling in the U.S. elections and its potential cyberthreats to the military, digging deep into what they view as corrosive interference in the nation's institutions.
Democrats Launch New McCarthyism
By Norman Solomon
Unwilling to examine the real reasons why Democrats did so poorly on Election Day, party leaders in Congress are scapegoating Russia and setting in motion a new McCarthyism.
Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House
By Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller
The Washington Post
The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The Russian Reset That Never Was
By Mikhail Zygar
Foreign Policy
How palace intrigues in the Kremlin, the death of Qaddafi, and war in Ukraine ushered in a new era of mistrust between Russia and the United States under Obama.
Hybrid wars
Russia's Hybrid War as a Byproduct of a Hybrid State
By Mark Galeotti
War on the Rocks
Russia is indeed waging an essentially political struggle against the West through political subversion, economic penetration, espionage, and disinformation.
Russia Expects a Taste of Its Own Cyber Medicine
By Leonid Bershidsky
Russia, demonized as the biggest cyber-villain in the world in the wake of the U.S. election campaign, must now take special care of its own information security.
Russia Gets A New Information Security Doctrine
By Sean Lawson
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed off on a new information security doctrine (PDF) for Russia.
Russian propaganda is state-of-the-art again
The Economist
As in the 1930s, Moscow is a beacon for an international movement.
Syrian conflict
Putin and Assad Are About to Achieve Their Biggest Victory in Syria
By Uri Friedman
The Atlantic
What comes next?
Afghan conflict
Ties between Russia and the Taliban worry Afghan, U.S. officials
By Hamid Shalizi and Josh Smith
Afghan and American officials are increasingly worried that any deepening of ties between Russia and Taliban militants fighting to topple the government in Kabul could complicate an already precarious security situation.
Russia-Japan relations
Putin and Abe Are Hoping to Forge Closer Russia-Japan Ties
By Emily Tamkin
Foreign Policy
Russia and Japan have been courting closer ties, hoping to solve a nettlesome territorial dispute, end World War II, and deepen economic ties between Moscow and Tokyo.
Japan sees an opportunity for a reset with Russia
By Yoichi Funabashi
The Financial Times
The west should welcome Tokyo's engagement with Moscow.
Rosneft privatization
Glencore and Qatar take stake worth €10bn in Rosneft
By Jack Farchy and Neil Hume
The Financial Times
Glencore and the sovereign wealth fund of Qatar are to take a 19.5 per cent stake in Russian oil company Rosneft in a surprise €10.5bn deal that marks a triumph for President Vladimir Putin.
Doping scandal
Report Shows Vast Reach of Russian Doping: 1,000 Athletes, 30 Sports
By Rebecca R. Ruiz
The New York Times
The findings intensified pressure on the International Olympic Committee to reassess Russia's medals from the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and penalize the nation ahead of the 2018 Winter Games.
Articles also deserving your attention
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- Picking Up Where the West Leaves Off (09.12.16)
- Putin, Our Tsar-Protector? (07.12.16)
- Russia seeks influence in Libya (06.12.16)
- Why Putin Scores Big With the Rosneft Deal (08.12.16)
- German Firms Place New Bets on Russia (08.12.16)
- Putin's gulag (07.12.16)
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Following a series of controversial roughing the passer calls this season, there is growing sentiment within the NFL that a new rule aimed at protecting quarterbacks should be applied differently by game officials the remainder of the season.
Multiple people familiar with the inner workings of the NFL competition committee said the language of the rule — which makes it a penalty for defensive players to land with all or most of their body weight on the quarterback — would not be altered this season but that the way it is enforced would change.
The new rule has been criticized by players as unduly harsh and unfair to defenders. The controversy has revolved around, in particular, two calls against Green Bay Packers linebacker Clay Matthews.
In both cases, the league office supported the roughing-the-passer calls made by officials against Matthews. But that does not necessarily mean that the calls were consistent with how the league wants to see the roughing-the-passer rule enforced, according to people with knowledge of the league's thinking.
A person close to the rules process said that no formal instructions to the on-field officials are likely to be made but it is expected that the roughing-the-passer rule will be called differently, with the shift in emphasis becoming clear through officiating videos distributed by the league.
"I think you'll see a change going forward," that person said.
No significant changes to the language of the roughing-the-passer rule are expected to be made during the 2018 season. "I'm not sure we can do anything this year," one person with knowledge of the competition committee's deliberations said.
The particularly problematic call against Matthews, in the view of some connected with the process, was the roughing-the-passer penalty he received for a hit on Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins during a Sept. 16 game in Green Bay. Matthews hit Cousins after the quarterback released the football on a throw late in the game. Matthews was penalized for, the league said at the time, reaching around and lifting Cousins by the back of the leg before taking him to the ground.
The call negated what would have been a game-clinching interception for the Packers. Instead, the Vikings drove to a game-tying touchdown and two-point conversion late in regulation. The game finished in a 29-29 tie after a scoreless overtime.
This past Sunday, Matthews was penalized for a hit on Washington Redskins quarterback Alex Smith. Referee Craig Wrolstad said, with the league office's subsequent backing, that Matthews' hit on Smith violated this season's directive by the competition committee prohibiting a defender from landing on a quarterback with most or all of his body weight.
Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was injured on such a hit last season. That was one of a number of high-profile injuries last season to star quarterbacks, including the Philadelphia Eagles' Carson Wentz and the Houston Texans' Deshaun Watson. Roughing-the-passer penalties have been up sharply in the early stages of this season.
Matthews, other NFL players and many outside observers have been sharply critical of the calls against Matthews, saying he was being penalized for what amounted to textbook tackles at a time when defenders are prohibited from hitting quarterbacks in the head or below the knee.
"What you saw there was a football play," Matthews said in the visitors' locker room at FedEx Field following Sunday's game. "I beat my man. I'm right in front of the quarterback. I get my head to the side. I wrap him up … He gave himself up. I land on him. I pull my hands out … I like the spirit of the rule. I just think we're going in the wrong direction."
Matthews said Sunday the league is getting soft.
"I don't run the league office," he said. "But you'd like to see football be football. Football has hard hits. It's a physical game. It's not for the faint of heart. We get after one another. … It's going in the wrong direction."
Rodgers said Sunday: "They were worried in the preseason, a lot of people, about the targeting-type penalties that were going to get called. I haven't really seen any of those. Obviously the one that's been called a lot the first few weeks is the roughing the passer. So the league will, I'm sure, look at those plays, and probably double down."
Redskins safety D.J. Swearinger said Monday that Sunday's penalty against Matthews was "a bad call" involving a "horrible rule" that "should be taken out."
Swearinger continued: "The game happens too fast. It's a grown man's game. It's not a referee's game. You've got to know the game. You've got to be able to play the game to be able to put rules out. The game happens too fast … I don't know what you'd ask Clay to do. It's not football."
During the preseason, competition committee members discussed the league's new helmet rule amid a controversy over how the new rule was being enforced. The committee made no significant changes to the rule, which makes it a penalty for a player to lower his head and use his helmet to deliver a hit, but the league issued a clarification saying that inadvertent or incidental contact should not result in a penalty.
The number of calls made under the new rule were curbed significantly from that point on. During the regular season, the focus has shifted to the manner in which roughing the passer is being enforced.
The Washington Post's Kareem Copeland contributed to this report.


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The founder of Umami Burger maps out the best burgers of Los Angeles. Start planning your route! A burger crawl is in order.
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Top chefs in Los Angeles weigh in on where you can find the best taco trucks around the city.
Cold cuts, panino, vegetarian wraps and more, Los Angeles has a slew of sandwiches to choose from. Here are 19 favorites.
Erwin Tjahyadi from Komodo maps out the top Indonesian spots around LA.
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If you love the mouth-watering, thinly cut grilled bulgogi meats, then this guide is for you. Here are the best spots for bulgogi in LA.
From coffee shops and restaurants to must-see sights, here is your guide to doing Los Angeles according to chef CJ Jacobson.
Get your brew on with these 13 favorite breweries in Los Angeles. Cheers!
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Cocktail savant Dee Quinones guides us on a mission to find the best cocktail bars on Broadway Ave and into the Arts District in Downtown Los Angeles.
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The best date spot in town isn't always the newest. Here, the chef and owner of Michael's Santa Monica share ideas for perfect dates in LA.
The SGV-native behind Fat Dragon, Silver Lake's new Chinese kitchen and tea bar, points us to his favorite dumplings
Nestled in the famed rock 'n' roll Andaz Hotel along the iconic Sunset Strip, Riot House Restaurant & Bar offers a menu of fresh, local California flavors in a sleek setting perfect to start a night out on the town.
Kelis is now a certified chef and she's bringing the boys (and girls) to the yard with way more than milkshakes.
Chef Steve Samson of Sotto and Rossoblu breaks out of his pasta shell and shares his favorite Asian noodle dishes in Los Angeles
In-N-Out or the golden arches might be the old standbys when you've had a few too many, but these delectably greasy dishes are better equipped to give your hangover the boot.
For a slice better than the rest, find out where some of the city's best chefs and other 'Za experts find their pizza fix in LA…
The Greeks do a whole lot more than Greek salad…
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The pot roast goddess, Chef Suzanne Tracht, weighs in on where to 'steak' out the best steakhouses in Los Angeles and beyond.
From Korean BBQ to the best southern-style foods off the grill, here are the top BBQ restaurants in Los Angeles according to Chef Tim Hollingsworth.
Los Angeles' natural beauty is not merely a source for wanderlust-worthy photos. It's a setting that you can really sink your teeth into. ""Top Chef Duels"" winner CJ Jacobson explains how foraging in Los Angeles has given him the creative freedom to, well, win Top Chef. We also learn of his favorite spots in town, from the mountains to the beach.
Los Angeles is bursting with British actors and chefs. Originally from London, Chef Brendan Collins gives us the lowdown on the best places for a bite of Brit cuisine.
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Spending a weekend at the beach in Santa Monica is always a good idea, now more than ever with an expanding roster of great restaurants to keep your tastebuds stimulated during your stay.
Tickets for the pop up 2014 NORTH Festival in Los Angeles are now on sale. Secure your seat at one of the three delicious and very intimate Nordic dinners.
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Review: Ghost Rider #1
It's hell on wheels as the Spirit of Vengeance makes his roaring return! A mysterious object from space crash-lands in southern California, drawing some of the brightest minds in the Marvel Universe to Ghost Rider's backyard – including Amadeus Cho, the Totally Awesome Hulk! What mayhem will be unleashed as the High-octane Hothead comes face-to-face with the Jade Genius? And with Robbie still possessed by the ghost of his evil uncle Eli…who's really in the driver's seat?
I read a little of the previous volume of Ghost Rider, but for the most part skipped the series. So, while somewhat familiar with the Robbie Reyes version of the character, the whole possessed by the ghost of his evil uncle was something I was up on. After reading this issue, I'm not sure I know anymore than I did before.
Written by Felipe Smith with art by Danillo Beyruth the main story is… interesting. While Ghost Rider's name is splashed across that cover it feels like a lot of the issues is devoted to, Totally Awesme Hulk!? Yes, the Hulk is peppered throughout the issue as Reyes story is broken up by a build up featuring that character. The problem is, there's not really any payoff with the Hulk in how Ghost Rider ties in, so the scenes feel like someone produced the comic wrong and mixed up the two series. It's confusing and an odd choice that takes the focus away from a character who is garnering some interest with a high profile spotlight in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Then there's a back-up story written by Smith with Tradd Moore on art. This addition is a bit more straight forward in the comic sense with Reyes having someone attempting to steal his car. It's nothing earth shattering, but it's entertaining and looks great.
Beyruth's art is ok for the series and has a generic feal about it all. In fact the Hulk scenes felt like they could be found in that series, so things feel replaceable. Not necessarily a good thing but also not horrible. It evokes a little of Moore's style that made the previous volume so cool to look at, though it doesn't copy it.
Moore's contribution on the other hand is as solid as solid can be as expected. I love Moore's art and he always adds a kinetic energy that's just fun to look at.
The choices for this issue are… interesting to say the least. With pages that feel like they're from an issue of Totally Awesome Hulk and then another character showing up at the end, the issue feels like something you'd find many issues down when sales have dwindled and a crossover is needed to boost sales. I can't see folks who came to this from the live action version would stick around after this issue. I'm seriously perplexed.
Story: Felipe Smith Art: Danillo Beyruth, Tradd Moore
Story: 4 Art: 6.7 Overall: 4 Recommendation: Pass
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After the outer ring off bosses is dead we descend deeper into uldir bringing us to the most fun trash in the raid. There is random aggro-ing packs, sublime pathing, interesting knockbacks and a copious amount of being scared to die. If the trash was bad certainly the boss itself wouldn't right ? well you're wrong here. Raid size and composition have a large impact on this fight so in some sense it was an uphill battle but the Zul fight boils down to an add control type fight. Damage Zul down to 40% hp while not getting overwhelmed will all of the adds that join the fray to find yourself in phase 2 where dmg spikes on tanks and its a burn to the finish. A short type of fight that rekindled some memories of Blackhand in blackrock foundry. That fight had just one setting "full on". Dealing with limited dispel opportunities eventually we started pushing into phase 2 on a regular basis, now we just needed to push him into it while being in control. While attempting to handle a truckload of minion adds and dodging the blood stains on the floor Zul was finally put down to rest... again.
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The 12-story Hilton Garden Inn at 1999 Chestnut Place started welcoming guests Tuesday. The hotel, developed and owned by Focus Property Group and operated by Davidson Hotels & Resorts, adds 233 rooms and 10,000 square feet of meeting and event space to the neighborhood.
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The first milestone of Act 178 of 2006 – the "Ancient Roads Law" recently passed, being July 1, 2010 and the creation of a new highway category called "unidentified corridors." The current category of class 4 town highways will be split into 2 parts, one remaining as class 4 town highways and the other being "unidentified corridors." This new category and former part of class 4 constitutes legally established town highways that are not clearly observable as highways or trails on the landscape. These invisible roads will exist until the next major milestone in the process, July 1, 2015 when the category of "unidentified corridors" are discontinued by statute, unless acted upon by the legislative bodies in each municipality.
As a means to avoid the creation of "unidentified corridors," many municipalities submitted changes on the 2010 Certificate of Highway Mileage, adding these highways as class 4 town highways, or reclassifying them to legal trail. The VTrans Mapping Unit on average processes 55 Mileage Certificates per year, constituting approximately 100 changes. This year has been significantly busier, with 97 municipalities submitting changes and prompting more than 400 changes.
Some municipalities have availed themselves of another provision in statute from Act 178 of 2006, and this is mass discontinuance, which allows for all highways that will become "unidentified corridors" to be mass discontinued in a single process. To date, VTrans has received information that 10 towns have completed the process and 5 were in the middle of the process. Municipalities have until July 1, 2010 to complete the mass discontinuance process, because after that point, this provision is no longer available.
There continues to be a lot of activity on ancient roads at many levels. There were 2 bills introduced in the House of Representatives related to ancient roads, H.469 and H.679. Each bill was sent to the House Transportation Committee where the bills were read and not acted upon, so no changes were made to the ancient road legislation this year. Annually, VTrans provides a report to the Legislature regarding the effectiveness of Act 178 of 2006 and provides means to improve the effectiveness of the act. These reports can be found on-line at –
The creation of a new category of highways is upon us and a new phase of the ancient road process. Municipalities have worked extremely hard to research and map their highways and trails, and this effort is expected to continue for several more years. VTrans continues to incorporate changes to the road centerline data and has added 95.17 miles of class 4 and 78.52 miles of legal trails this year, plus made numerous other updates as a result of Act 178 of 2006.


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It's the best kind of weather: rain, not heavy and therefore destructive, but fairly steady and saturating, so that the garden looks impossibly, radiantly green. The temperature is almost 20 degrees less than it was a couple of weeks ago -- in the upper 80s.
We went to Amethyst and sat on the verandah, watching drops of water dropping from leaves and drinking cappuccino. It was heavenly.
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- Isabel said...
I'm glad Chennai finally got some rain. That must be a big relief! Here in Bangalore it's cool enough to wear long sleeves!
Ah Amethyst... I spend a lot of time there when I'm in Chennai. An afternoon on the veranda under a fan with a good book is pure bliss!
- 8:50 pm, June 21, 2007
- Joel said...
Rain is a word that might as well be a spot of Old English right out of Beowulf, a term for which we have no cognates here in this Southern California June.
- 3:17 am, June 25, 2007
- Lucy said...
A picture like that from a place called Amethyst, where you sit on a verandah under a fan or watching raindrops. Sounds utter bliss.
- 10:43 am, June 25, 2007
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A review of Canadian political nomination races by the Samara Centre for Democracy has found that more than 70 per cent of them had but one contestant. The report, which is being released today, suggests Canada's political parties' practice of choosing or backing one contestant to represent their riding in an election is a major weakness in Canadian democracy because it ultimately reduces choice for voters and does not reflect the country's demographic diversity.
Samara is a non-partisan charity that has produced a series of reports on the role of MPs. It reviewed nearly 3,900 federal nomination races that took place between 2003 and 2015 and conducted discussions with insiders connected to the major parties. As Ottawa-based reporter Bill Curry reports, the study produced a clear picture of not only how nomination races are conducted (quickly and without much forewarning) but also reveals that contests do not produce candidates any more diverse in terms of gender or ethnicity than if parties had just appointed their preferred candidate.
The study found that women made up less than 30 per cent of contestants; the NDP topping the list in that regard with 40 per cent of female nomination candidates, with the Liberals (29 per cent), Green Party (29 per cent), Bloc Québécois (27 per cent) and Conservatives (16 per cent) trailing.
The report suggests that Elections Canada could make tax credits on political donations conditional on whether or not parties set standards to encourage open and public nominations and perhaps also set established targets for the percentage of female candidates or candidates from underrepresented communities.
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Where are the Liberals today? Every morning, The Canadian Press circulates a schedule to newsrooms across the country that they put together based on itineraries and press releases from provincial and federal parties. We at The Globe and Mail have noticed quite the influx in Liberal cabinet ministers making announcements about, you know, funding this or funding that. Yesterday, Social Development Minister Jean-Yves Duclos and Procurement Minister Carla Qualtrough made simultaneous announcements for awarding maintenance contracts to two shipyards.
Today, the Liberals are making announcements about funding, partnerships or info sessions in Fredericton (Science Minister Kirsty Duncan); Saint-Anicet, Que. (Tourism Minister Mélanie Joly); Trois Rivières, Que. (Justice Minister David Lametti); Chatham, Kitchener, London and Milton, Ont. (Mr. Duclos); Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. (Seniors Minister Filomena Tassi); Cranbrook, B.C. (Natural Resources Minister Amarjeet Sohi); Saanich, B.C. (Doug Donaldson, Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development); Surrey, B.C., and Vancouver (Federal Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor).
You'd think there was an election coming or something.
Meanwhile, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is in Saskatoon to attend the Dairy Farmers of Canada annual general meeting and later speaking with the Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce; NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh makes a health-care announcement in Drummondville, Que., where his party is making a major push, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits the Port of Montreal along with President of the European Council Donald Tusk.
According to a Nanos poll released yesterday, the Liberals have a six-point lead over the Conservatives. However, according to Angus Reid, the Conservatives hold an eight-point lead. Make of it what you will.
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc received a free flight on a private plane owned by New Brunswick-based J.D. Irving Ltd. last month, but the flight was approved by the federal Ethics Commissioner. Mr. LeBlanc is fighting cancer and needed to travel to a hospital in Montreal from Moncton. The trip for medical consultations was pre-approved by Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion. Mr. LeBlanc and James D. Irving, who is the president and chief executive officer of J.D. Irving Ltd., are long-time friends. When Mr. LeBlanc joined the Liberal cabinet in 2015, he set up what's called a "conflict of interest screen" to prevent him from participating in any government decisions that could directly affect Irving.
Jens Stoltenberg, the Secretary-General of NATO, sounded a warning yesterday for countries allowing gear from China's Huawei Technologies into their 5G wireless networks. He said it "remains to be seen" whether NATO intelligence-sharing between members of the Western military alliance will be affected. The largest member of NATO, the United States, has effectively barred Huawei from its 5G networks and has threatened to curtail the sharing of sensitive intelligence to countries that use Huawei equipment.
In Washington, Democrats in the House of Representatives voted yesterday to condemn President Donald Trump's "racist comments" against four minority congresswomen. You'll recall Mr. Trump tweeted on Sunday that the four should "go back" and fix the "crime-infested places from which they came." It's an embarrassing rebuke for Mr. Trump but it carries no legal repercussions,
And across the pond, a French politician is in hot water after spending lavishly on champagne and lobster. François de Rugy, France's (former) environment minister, stepped down after an investigative report revealed that he and his wife played host to 10 taxpayer-funded dinners in 2017 and 2018 for between 10 and 30 guests that featured jumbo lobsters (no word if they were Canadian), champagne and expensive bottles from the National Assembly's cellar such as Château Mouton Rothschild, Château Cheval Blanc and Château d'Yquem. Mr. de Rugy's wife, Séverine, told the outlet that broke the story that the dinners helped her husband remain connected with the public.
Gary Mason (The Globe and Mail) on how a Liberal minority would be Alberta's worst nightmare: "Should Mr. Trudeau need the help of [Green Party Leader Elizabeth] May and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh to prop up a minority government, it would obviously come at a cost. And that cost is almost certainly going to be in the area of the environment. Yes, we are talking about a state of affairs that would be Jason Kenney's worst nightmare. Because if the Alberta Premier thinks Mr. Trudeau is a raving, oil-hating tree-hugger now, he hasn't seen anything yet."
Kevin Cokley (The Globe and Mail) on what is a real American: "If you are not American in the way that President Trump narrowly defines what an American is, your patriotism and love of country is immediately called into question. "
David Shribman (The Globe and Mail) on the race to win the Democratic nomination: "After months of posturing, preening and practising, the field of two-dozen presidential aspirants is experiencing a form of political mitosis, separating into two nuclei – a group of five candidates whose members' prospects are soaring and a separate group of hopefuls, about four times bigger, that is struggling."
Alexandra Chyczij, president of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (The National Post) on the fifth anniversary of the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine: "Five years on, the perpetrators of this act of terrorism have not been brought to justice."
Don Braid (The Calgary Herald) on UCP solidarity showing some early cracks: "In Western Canada, and especially Alberta, these conservative splits are virtually inevitable."
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In India, where even basic healthcare is out of reach for many, caring for or understanding mental illnesses is a secondary concern. Even in urban areas and metro cities, seeking help for mental illnesses is accompanied by a lot of social stigma.
Dr Nirmala Srinivasan, Ashoka fellow and founder of the Families Alliance on Mental Illness, a crowdfunded advocacy and support group, says that there are huge gaps in India's mental health care despite the milestone Mental Healthcare Act 2017.
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While people are mostly unaware of how to help family members or even themselves, Dr Srinivasan says the government has much to do to bridge the gap created by the lack of information and publicity about government-run facilities. The government, she says, needs to think out of the box to meet the needs of those suffering and those taking care of them.
To mark World Mental Health Day on October 10, Dr Srinivasan in an interview with Huffpost India spoke about what these gaps are, why the government needs to go out of its way to create awareness and why she felt that perhaps even the government feels the stigma surrounding mental illnesses.
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What is Families Alliance on Mental Illness (FACEMI)? What led you to set it up?
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Families Alliance on Mental Illness started in 2013. I realised there were many gaps in the system, which does not give adequate support for families to handle the challenges of providing care. Then I thought I should have systems-level initiative set up, and that's how I set up AFMI (Action for Mental Illness India) in 2003, when I got Ashoka fellowship. It is purely an advocacy organisation to get intervention which is more family friendly, intervention at the level of law and policy. There are four main thrust areas in the ACMI. FACEMI is the last lap of the advocacy initiative.
We are a family advocacy group in addition to being a family support group. Probably, we are one of its kind in the country.
Support is not just emotional support or information support, but giving them whatever other additional inputs required — in terms of reference to doctors and other things. In addition to that we make the government generate support.
What kind of support?
I will give you an example — I am talking about Bangalore because I am based out of here, many families faced the problem of not getting an emergency ambulance for psychiatric patients. Families had to take trucks or tempos to take them to the hospital. A lot of families faced problems in getting the patients to the hospital. In the process, they used to give up. This also delayed treatment. This would give rise to a lot of other problems like patients running away, becoming wandering mentally ill.
So I decided I should approach the government for an ambulance, I started my appeal with the Karnataka government. In 2005 I started, finally the ambulance materialised in 2008. Finally when it came through,we didn't have the funds. So I got Hewlett-Packard to sponsor it for two years and then fund allocations started. Families were very happy. We got a Maruti van donated by the Rotary (Club) in Bangalore.
The ambulance was fine till 2011-12. Then I started getting complaints that it was not available in the night and rarely available even during the day time. Finally, the whole campaign was that mental health should get integrated into general health and public health. Then I started a campaign for 108. I took it up with the state mental health authority. Why can't 108 also handle mental illness cases? So this is what I mean by generating support.
(Editor's note: 108 is a toll free number for emergency services which is operational in 22 states in India. It was first rolled out in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh)
What are the other big gaps that you see that keep patients with mental illnesses from getting help?
The entire field of psychiatric services is biased in favour of institutional and community care in India. Unfortunately, the largest section of care is provided by the family. And the family care model is least looked into. This inadequacy is characteristic of the new legislation we have — the Mental Healthcare Act 2017. You can broadly classify three types of care — institutional care, community care and family care. Institution and community are very well known because it is a legacy handed down by organisations like the WHO and other international bodies. In terms of resource allocation and policy people only talk about institutional care and community care. Family is a part of community care… If you talk about community care, it is polarised in terms of charity-based free services to wandering mentally ill or destitute and others. Community care is a western concept.
On the contrary, 70% of those who need treatment are all managed in families. These are statistics from the National Sample Survey of the Ministry of Social Justice in 2002 (. So, when the family is a predominant care provider, the policies, schemes are not family centric.
How much responsibility do you think lies with the family to make themselves aware of their rights, in terms of seeking healthcare for mental illnesses?
You cannot bunch all affected families in India under one category. There are urban families, rural families. It has nothing to do with socio-economic status. Mental illness is an independent variable across families. So when you say families, it depends on which family.
Let's talk about urban families.
Urban families are a typical example. This morning I got a call from the wife of a techie. She is a homemaker and he needs help, terribly. The wife is unable to move because she doesn't know where to seek help. It has to be proved that he is mentally ill to seek help. Otherwise, there is a chance of violating his human rights even though she is the wife.
This is a gap we find in the mental healthcare act — family centric interventions through legislation. The wife doesn't know where to seek help.
The first right that the act talks about (The Mental Healthcare Act 2017) is the right to access to mental health services, run or provided by the appropriate government. In Bangalore there are two types of mental health facilities — district mental health care facilities or under the municipal corporation. The wife can call them and they are likely to say bring the patient here. Such a facility is available and such a legislation is available, most people don't know.
There is a big gap — how can a person, who is in a family, exercise their right to access treatment?
How much of a role does the government have to play to inform people of the rights that they have?
The government is not able to appreciate this gap in service. So our latest campaign is 'assisted home care'.
Can you elaborate on 'assisted home care'?
I wanted to know how does a relapse happen. Usually a relapse or patient dropping out of treatment is blamed on families. Across the world it is very familiar for the patient to medicine after some time — either because of self-stigma or side effects. Families are not able to take them for follow up treatment. And all these things — 70% of people with mental illness not having access to treatment, drop outs and follow up care not happening, families losing interest, more than one person in the family with a mental illness — culminate into a treatment gap of 80% to 90% in India.
Why is this? There is a writing on the wall. Your policy and schemes have to help families in whatever way possible. In urban, metro families 'assisted home care' is the best thing you can do.
Urban families can afford to go to private psychiatrists and that this what is happening. Nobody wants to go to a municipal corporation or OPD psychiatric clinic. That is the place where you don't get full comprehensive treatment, because many private clinics don't have psychologists or social workers attached to them to work as a team. And according to WHO treatment comprises of not just hospitalisation and medication, but also therapy, counselling, treating the patient and getting the patient rehabilitated into a daily routine and later on into the community.
Private psychiatrists don't have the time, they only write the prescriptions and they monitor the patient when the patient comes back. It is only the government that can provide comprehensive care.
What do you think stops people from going to psychiatrists in government facilities?
There is not enough publicity. Even a person like me who is a mental health advocate, I did not know about the availability of services and DMHP (District Mental Health Programme) in urban Bangalore.
One is lack of information and second is indifference and apathy — where families just give up.
There isn't any publicity given to mental illnesses. Sometimes I wonder if the government is also feeling the stigma of mental illnesses.
How do you think our laws, policies and advocacy can help families and those who are affected by mental illnesses get rid of the apathy or stigma?
I don't want to focus on stigma as an issue by itself. We need a multi-pronged approach to this. Once you provide a comprehensive care service or what I called 'assisted home care' and once this is given enough publicity by the government, at least for the urban middle class — which is really neglected — the government has to do a lot of out-of-box thinking on how to use the traditional, conventional district mental health programme, it is a robust programme.
The central government also has to go out of its way to ensure that the district mental health programme is reinforced and brought within the framework of this legislation (Mental Healthcare Act 2017.) to help families, provide extensive facilities and also give lot of publicity, and not just in one language. It is a national act, so you have to have Kannada, you have to have Hindi and English.
There isn't any publicity given to mental illnesses. Sometimes I wonder if the government is also feeling the stigma of mental illnesses.
To sum it up, what should be the top three priorities of the government agenda in terms of mental health care?
First and foremost, the government should try to revamp district mental health programmes to integrate it into public services. This is also provided for in the legislation (Mental Healthcare Act 2017). From this integration the Central government or the Central mental health authority has to plan in a phased-off manner. All of this should be on a website for people to see and understand… there is no sharing of information.
Two, doing pilot studies on assisted healthcare and assisted family care, in each state in one or two districts. The government needs to do a thorough job of it. It should not be old wine in a new bottle… the government needs to step out of its traditional mindset to bring change.
What is happening now is that this legislation (Mental Healthcare Act 2017) has changed the authority or control from technocracy to bureaucracy. All these years the psychiatrists or the technocrats were in charge of the mental health services. As a result, I guess there isn't a smooth transition happening across India. As a result, state mental health rule is yet to be notified. Unless that is done we cannot talk about district mental health programmes. And unless that is done, I cannot talk about doing a pilot study.
The third priority — how are you going to take care of the OPMI (orphaned person with mental illness)? What is being done for them? There is absolutely no cohesive, integrated thinking on this. The whole question of how can we talk about a treatment gap of 80 to 90%. The moment you talk about treatment gap, any government official or a mental health professional will say we are a population of 3,000 psychiatrist for a population of 150 million. But thinking of resources is not my job… These are the three things I can mention.


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Women Are Taking the Lead in the Running World
According to the latest statistics, more women are getting into the competitive running sphere. This surge of female runners is changing the tide of the running world. So we can't help but ask, who run the world? Girls!
Ladies, we've come a long way in the running world since the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) first banned women from competing officially in all U.S. road races. Back then, many women fought the ban to get us back into the race, and their hard work paid off. Female runners have been smashing running barriers ever since.
Years after the ban was lifted, more and more women have taken up running. The 2017 National Runner Survey reported that around 63% of runners in the United States are women. More over, women are competing in running events across the US in growing numbers. At some marathons, like Boston, women are outnumbering men in certain age groups [let's close the gap on the over 50 category!].
According to Running USA data, the majority of runners in U.S. road races are women. In 2017, around 59% of participants in any given road race were female, while 41% were male.
Source: Running USA
While men might have faster finishing times, the rate in which they complete running events has fallen compared to women. In the chart above, we can see that women have been taking the lead in finishing running events. This could be because women's pacing patterns perform better than men's. According to a Danish study, women are 18.61% better than men at running with a controlled and consistent pace. These pacing patterns can help stave off marathon burnout allowing women to finish events at higher rates.
Though the average age for female competitive runners is currently 36, we're hoping these women keep running until they can join the ranks of the Over 50 club. Then we can shine the Over 50 runner's spotlight on them too. Let's keep up the good work, ladies!


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We're a hockey family: I play, and my two boys play. Mom does not play yet, but her skating has come a long way on the backyard rink. I get asked all the time what my boys are going to do in the off-season.
It's a question for the ages. Just to begin, there is no perfect answer. Every kid and athlete are different – some can't get enough of a particular sport, some just want to be done, and this can change year to year.
An athlete may not want to hang up their skates for the spring when the season is going well. But if the season has been a long one, they may be counting down the minutes until the gear can go back in its bag for the summer. Either way, younger kids (especially ages five to 15) need a break. If they don't want a break, too bad. Time for some tough love. They will thank you for it.
Either way, younger kids (especially ages five to 15) need a break. If they don't want a break, too bad. Time for some tough love. They will thank you for it.
This leads me to my list of how we decompress when the season ends and how we start to plan for next year now.
1 | Communicate.
Ask your athlete how they felt about their season. Maybe start a journal with your younger athletes. If your kid is older and heading into high school, they should be tracking their performances anyway. Now would be a good time to start. Here are some sample questions I like to ask:
- What aspect of your season did you like best?
- What skill did you improve upon the most?
- What do you wish you could do over?
- What are two things you want to improve upon before the next season begins?
- Now that the season is over, is this a sport you would like to continue?
2 | Plan the gear for next year.
Quickly go through your kids' gear and see what will fit them for another season and what they'll need new for next year.
Consider your kid's skill level when assessing his or her equipment needs. Are they getting good at a particular sport? If so, will they need better than average – or even custom – gear? This type of gear typically takes longer for fitting and ordering purposes so plan ahead.
I order my kids' gear about four months before the start of the season. This allows enough time for fitting, any possibly delays in delivery, and a couple of months for them to break in the new stuff.
The downside to planning ahead is the risk of buying a bunch of gear that your kid outgrows before the season starts. My kids are growing a ton right now and they can outgrow equipment over just a summer. If any of you have suggestions about handling this kind of snafu, I am all ears!
3 | Play a different sport. Or lots of them.
Again, my boys play hockey, and a lot of it. They start in October and finish in May. Now that our last spring tournament is complete I've switched my boys' hockey gear out for a baseball glove and bat.
In Vermont, our baseball season is only five weeks long, maybe six. So once the flash of the baseball season has passed, what do we do? Well, we do everything. Fishing, golf, play lacrosse in the backyard, driveway basketball games, hiking, wiffle ball is a big hit,We also encourage our kids to get in plenty of swimming at the pool, lake, or ocean during the summer – whatever we can do together as a family to stay active and continue to build and learn about our athletic abilities.
I hear coaches talk all the time about the importance of playing multiple sports and building athleticism – I couldn't agree more.
5 | Try a new sports camp.
We are a household where both parents work. We have a great family support network during the summer, but we also rely on sports camps to expose our boys to new types of activities that they might not discover on their own.
My youngest goes to a skateboarding camp, and my oldest wants to try a survival camp. Our goal as parents is to make sure they're learning new things and experiencing new adventures each and every day of summer if possible.
6 | Work on skills for next season.
First, don't specialize you child until at least high school – maybe even after their sophomore year, depending on your child's development. They may think they want to be in the NBA at age nine, but other factors will eventually decide their favorite sport. Let them figure that out.
One way to help them along that path is to use just a little bit of off-season time for skill development. My boys typically do one week of power skating in the summer.
My older boy, who is eight, is going to learn about athletic training at a twice weekly training program for younger athletes. Each summer this program will progressively get more and more intense.
At the end of the day, sports are about the experience.
Our sons also attend one week of hockey camp in the off-season. Some of my best memories as a hockey player growing up are from sleepaway hockey camp. Even with the non-air-conditioned dorms and bad food, camp was always where I grew the most as a player. It also gave me the opportunity to meet people from all over the world. I got to try different camps and go to different places, which helped me as a kid to get out of my comfort zone and find new ways to engage with sports.
At the end of the day, sports are about the experience. Just look at baseball: only 1 in 1,000 kids that play in high school even get a shot at the big leagues. The odds of your kid becoming a professional athlete in any sport are incredibly small, so try not to make that the focus – for them or you.
Give your kids the chance at a young age to grow and learn to love athletics for what they do to enhance our lives. Maybe that's working toward a career as a pro athlete, but maybe it's just learning how to be the best you can at a particular task, and then repeat. Kind of like what the real world asks of us every day.
As a parent of two very athletic boys all I can say is I want them to work hard and have fun when they are doing it. Sometimes working hard and having fun is just taking a step away to reset their athletic clocks for the next long (or short) season.


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In Defense of Efficient Markets
Justin, let me first note that in your book, which I very much enjoyed, you make many gracious acknowledgements to the efficient markets hypothesis (EMH), such as the basic implication that it is very, very difficult to outperform the market. To outperform the market is incredibly hard, as evidenced by data not merely on retail investors who trade too much and tend to get into the market at exactly the wrong time, but professionals too, as mutual fund managers underperform their passive investment alternatives like night follows day. This is not a minor acknowledgment, but basically is the EMH theory.
Yet you call efficient markets a "myth" and say the theory "deluded" investors. "Efficient markets" appears to be a loaded phrase, with lots of baggage unrelated to the original definition presented by Eugene Fama back in 1965, which is that current market price is the best predictor of future price.
I think this distaste for efficient markets comes from two sources. First, many people distrust the "invisible hand." They do not think markets are fair games that reward virtue and promote social welfare. Secondly, there are critics (stockbrokers, talking heads on CNBC, financial journalists) whose livelihood depends on markets being wrong; otherwise their special insight as to why one should be in telecoms, or bonds, would have no value.
Government fails more often than markets do
By definition, an efficient outcome is one that cannot be improved upon. I am no anarcho-capitalist. I think a collective must have rules, even government. Yet I think government power should be minimized, because government failure is far more common than market failure, as the I.Q. of a group is diminished by centralized interaction. Not only do government bureaucrats suffer from the same cognitive and emotional limitations as consumers and investors, they are politically motivated rather than merely self-interested.
Justin, you mention in your post that Robert Shiller noted that housing was on an unprecedented tear in 2004. But Shiller did not predict an aggregate housing decline; instead, he merely stated the recent increase in home prices was unlikely to continue. In the 2005 edition of Irrational Exuberance, he wrote that in some cities "the price increases may start to slow down, and then to fall. At the same time, it is likely the boom will continue for quite a while in other cities."
Now, compare this modest warning by a lone economist to the forces promoting home lending from all directions. It was not just a Wall Street phenomenon, but one pushed by our government, legislators, regulators, and even academics (for evidence, see Stan Liebowitz's "Anatomy of a Train Wreck").
In 2002, President Bush bragged in a speech about how Freddie Mac had began a program to "help deserving families who have bad credit histories to qualify for homeownership loans." Bank acquisitions were evaluated in part by their Community Reinvestment Act record, which necessitated lowering underwriting criteria on homes. Furthermore, the Federal Housing Administration was, and is, offering loans with only three percent down, and during the boom, the Department of Housing and Urban Development promoted a program where even this minor investment could be paid for by the homebuilder, allowing a homebuyer to purchase an overpriced house with no money down. As the Republicans discovered in 2004 when they tried to add more oversight to Fannie Mae, there was little legislative appetite for anything close to more stringent lending standards during the boom.
The market diagnosed the bubble
In light of this governmental housing exuberance, I doubt that a more powerful government would have mitigated the boom -- rather, it would have made this crisis worse. Indeed, it was only the collapse of the subprime market at the beginning of 2007 as reflected by the ABX-HE subprime housing index that alerted people to the severity of this problem, and shut off financing by mid-2007, six months later. Market prices, not legislators, instigated the end of the insanity. How quickly are failed governmental initiatives usually stopped, once identified?
No one thinks markets are perfect, and EMH never says this. The proof that markets are efficient is that it is so improbable one can generate alpha -- something you, like most EMH critics, concede. But the implications do not seem obvious. That you were able to find one person in 2004 and turn his measured warning into something that would have drastically reversed the regulatory emphasis on weakening underwriting standards is classic hindsight wisdom.
The nice thing is that markets rely on decentralized self-interest to keep prices in line, which is surely more dependable than legislators building patronage systems and pandering to their base with other people's money. Letting markets, as opposed to bureaucrats, signal people how to get paid and how to invest, is simply better than the undefined alternative.
Follow Blog War on the efficiency of markets:
- Justin Fox, Aug. 3: The Price Isn't Always Right
- Eric Falkenstein, Aug. 4: In Defense of Efficient Markets
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Houston, TX, Release: August 20, 2019. For Immediate Release.
Twin Hill is excited to announce the recent successful management buyout of the Tailored Brands' Corporate Apparel Group, containing Twin Hill Acquisition Company, Inc., in partnership with mid-market private equity firm LDC. The deal will support the management team in taking immediate independent ownership of the business. This new ownership structure positions Twin Hill, alongside its industry-leading sister companies, Dimensions, Alexandra, and Yaffy in the United Kingdom, to expand its global reach within a true corporate apparel and uniform manufacturing and service environment. Twin Hill will continue to operate under the Twin Hill brand and serve as the U.S. based company within the newly acquired independent apparel group.
With this new structure in place, the management team will now have a vested stake in the success of the organization and full control over the ability to reinvest the corporate dollars back into the business. Additionally, these new financial pillars allow Twin Hill the opportunity to fully focus on the corporate apparel market. The new corporate focus will be to grow the Twin Hill footprint and better serve the domestic and global markets through its extensive international supply chain and distribution network shared seamlessly throughout its organization. This not only allows the company to provide an even higher level of service to existing and future brand-focused partners, but it also positions the new organization to become the industry's leading corporate apparel provider within the mid-market sector.
About Twin Hill: With over 20 years servicing the corporate apparel industry, Twin Hill specializes in implementing both domestic and global innovative, full-service, custom apparel programs for brand-focused partners within the mid-market uniform sector. Twin Hill's apparel programs and clients require and receive a commitment to product quality, superior customer service, a talented and innovative design team, a knowledgeable and savvy product development team, a global supply chain platform, a stable and well-funded financial cornerstone, and complete dedication to each program's success. For more information, visit https://www.twinhillcorp.com/.
About Dimensions: Dimensions is one of the UK's leading suppliers of bespoke corporate clothing, offering a financially stable organization which is steeped in knowledge and expertise on delivering successful clothing programs for people at work. This is supported and enhanced by having an international client base which is serviced worldwide, utilizing best practices. https://www.dimensions.co.uk/
About Alexandra: Alexandra has been designing and manufacturing garments since 1854. From the development of women's workwear at the start of the 20th Century, right through to the development of modern protective workwear and suiting for just about every sector and business in the UK, to the solutions now offered to millions of wearers across the world, Alexandra remains true to its core principles - quality, good design and reliable service. For more information, visit https://www.alexandra.co.uk/.
About Yaffy: Founded in 1924, Yaffy manufactured raincoats to supply the local market in the UK. It became involved in public tenders, initially supplying the Metropolitan Police in London, and then expanding to supply all UK Police Forces with waterproof garments and allied products. Yaffy has expanded its core focus on police clothing and expertise in foul weather and uniform apparel by penetrating other emergency services sectors, such as the Fire Service and the Ministry of Defense, to provide structural firefighting protective equipment, station wear and uniform apparel. Yaffy products include, High Visibility and Black Waterproof clothing complimented with a range of performance fleeces and lightweight high visibility outerwear, constructed from fabrics at the cutting edge of garment technology. For more information, visit http://www.yaffy.co.uk/.
About LDC: LDC is the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group. It is the most active mid-market private equity investor, having completed over 25% more buyouts and expansion deals than any other mid-market private equity firm in the last ten years. LDC supports management teams from all sectors and in every corner of the UK from its regional network of nine offices. Founded in 1981, LDC has a 35 year track record of success and has invested £4billion in more than 550 companies. For more information about LDC, visit https://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/.
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There's an irreducible element of music that connects metal, industrial music, power electronics and classical minimalism, and no word exists for it. It involves deep pulsations; excited provocation through sound and concept more than traditional technique; low-end frequencies rarely encountered in life; long sustained tones enlarged through overdrive; or distortion or just force of hands on instruments.
At least 1,000 people in the New York City area are evidently aware of that commonality and have positive associations with the word "drone." That was the number coaxed out by "Drone Activity in Progress," Thursday's 16-act, 3-stage, 6-hour show at the Knockdown Center, a renovated century-old door factory in Maspeth, Queens. It was a one-night festival of music made committedly by ecstatic loners — there were never more than two people on any stage. And it created a grimy symbiosis between performer and audience.
The event was one of many being presented by the Red Bull Music Academy, the mixture of music school and live-event promoter that has taken up residence in New York this month. Its money, from the energy-drink giant, went toward the right space (raw, old, lots of brick and glass, high ceilings, dream-world dimensions); the right accouterments (earplugs handed out at the gate, shuttle buses from the L train, mobile pizza ovens from Roberta's); the right sound and lighting; and the right price: $8.
This event had a presence, a clean, expensive, judicious power. It felt like a marker, and an unlikely one. Fifteen years ago, when music like this drew far less attention from the idly curious, such an event would have been unthinkable. That was before the reinvention of consumer habits in Brooklyn and Queens, and before the energy-drink industry, apparently, saw the marketing appeal of abrasive noise.
There was a room with red lighting for a subclass of performers who have been moving toward music with beats. (Notice the mildness of the corporate branding. Red lighting can suggest a particular product, if you let it, but it's also very nice.) This was where you saw Pete Swanson, whose music is elegant, highly repetitious, all deep bass and twinkly highs; Pharmakon, a k a Margaret Chardiet, who uses imposing guttural screams as parts of a provocative primitive-electronics whole; and Dominick Fernow, who performed with iPods and effects pedals in two different warped-techno guises: At 9 p.m., he was Prurient, raw and assaultive, and at 2 a.m., Vatican Shadow, focused and severe.
There was a second-floor stage for guitarists including Alan Licht, Noveller (Sarah Lipstate) and Mick Barr, all finding their way to a more organic kind of drone, and grassmass, the Brazilian laptop-electronics artist and one of 31 current "participants" in the academy's educational initiative. (In this program, the students get on the same bills with their heroes).
But the main stage, a deep rectangular space with surround-sound speakers, consistently put forth not only the evening's best stuff, but also one concise set after another that each would have been worth traveling a long distance for: musical, spacious, contemplative, properly loud. Oren Ambarchi, the Australian musician who lived in New York for a while 20 years ago but is now too rarely seen here, played a detailed, startlingly intense set of drones and pulsations with the drummer Joe Talia, who kept a steady, almost swinging cymbal beat.
With cathartic waves of drumming, Kid Millions of Oneida formed a duet with the tenor saxophonist Jim Sauter of Borbetomagus. Kim Gordon, once of Sonic Youth, played with Bill Nace in a new guitar duo called Body/Head: it was more discontinuous than most of the rest of the acts, with lurches and dropouts and strange turns and Ms. Gordon's chanting, waking-dream voice.
And there was KTL, a duo formed by the guitarist Stephen O'Malley of the band SunnO))), and the laptop artist Peter Rehberg, who has often recorded as Pita. Mr. O'Malley is a tone obsessive: he gets a warm, rounded, tube-technology sound in his noise and drone, and for an hour he carefully interacted with Mr. Rehberg's shifting and corroding electronic strafes. The deep-frequency music grew louder by degrees, nearly past pleasure into discomfort, but not quite. This was a sound-rhetoric of beauty, not pain and degradation.


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