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Hello again.
I remember once, heading up the Loxahatchee River out of Jupiter Florida. We left the busy bay with motor boats, condos and houses with river docks. We were heading for the river source and as we passed under bridges, the river got smaller, changing from wide bay to river and becoming the size of a country lane. The mangrove trees bent into the water, fish jumped ahead of our boat and rounding one corner we saw an alligator larger than our boat. There was a kind of shuffled talk between us, more like the sounds of leaves underfoot and the music of the dipping of paddles in the water. The branches came closer and eventually we were sliding underneath them, silently ducking low. Thoughts of the Manatee that we were told of, living deep in the water, a behemoth munching on sea grass, somewhere beneath the boat brought my heartbeat forward and filled my consciousness. Progress was slow now, inching forward, everything in present time. Finally the river stopped us. Wordless, we sat in the water, filed up with the moment. We stayed for a long time. Neither of us needed anything.I thought: This is meditation.
Offstage cues: Water, Silence, Plenty
Here is a poem by Rumi
Say I am you
I am dust particles in sunlight.
I am the round sun.
To the bits of dust I say, Stay.
To the sun, Keep moving.
I am morning mist,
and the breathing of evening.
I am wind in the top of a grove,
and surf on the cliff.
Mast, rudder helmsman, and keel,
I am also the coral reef they founder on.
I am a tree with a trained parrot in its braches.
Silence, thought, and voice.
The musical air coming through a flute,
a spark of stone, a flickering
in metal. Both candle,
and the moth crazy around it.
Rose, and the nightingale
lost in the fragrance.
I am all order of beign, the circling galaxy,
the evolutionary intelligence, the lift,
and the falling away. What is,
and what isn't. You who know
Jelaluddin, You the one
in all, say who
I am. Say I
am you.
The Essential Rumi translated by Barks and Moyne

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Stethoscope: $200, Gloves: $200, Surgical equipment: $100,000. A patient not noticing you left a rag in their newly sewn up stomach… priceless. Wellington Hospital is becoming renowned for what Dr Liz Hesketh described as "unsafe clinical practice." Several news media publications have followed what seems to be an increasing number of errors and staff resignations. Salient Feature Writer Jenna Powell looks at Wellington Hospital, the moral panic surrounding its practices, and what is being done to ensure the safety of all patients.
Respected child cancer specialist Dr Liz Hesketh told The Dominion Post she left the Wellington Hospital Unit because of "continual dwindling resources and a unit moving towards unsafe practice." Hesketh was soon followed by her colleague Anne Mitchell, which caused the temporary closure of the child cancer ward in Wellington. Patients of the unit were then transferred to Christchurch and Auckland units until replacements arrived. Wellington Hospital currently works in a joint cancer unit service with Canterbury which many commentators, Hesketh included, saw as a questionable and highly controversial move. Wellington Hospital has a huge turnover when it comes to staff. Nurses are constantly leaving due to what one nurse described as an "unsustainable workload." Salient visited Wellington Hospital on four separate occasions and used stealth (see: strolled into the hospital) to talk to members of staff while they took a load off in the cafeteria. When questioned about how they felt at Wellington Hospital and how they were managed and rostered, the standard answer was a blank drone-like statement indicating that they were to refer all media enquiries to Capital and Coast District Health Board. However some staff, when pressed, did reveal their feelings provided their names were not mentioned in print. A junior doctor told Salient that "depending on the shift" she feels "utterly bereft of guidance" and that her preliminary training at another main urban centre hospital seemed "far more organised."
PATIENT WAIT and EMERGENCY MEDICINE
A Capital and Coast spokesperson promised The Dominion Post at the start of the year that the hospital was working towards a "maximum 6 hour wait" for all patients. This was after patients had to be left in corridors awaiting attention in the emergency ward. Salient, ever so discreetly (see: got asked to leave by a terribly on-to-it orderly), buzzed around the emergency services waiting room and emergency overflow area asking patients how long they had been waiting. On the four separate occasions Salient visited, the wait varied extremely. On one occasion the most anyone waited was four hours, whereas on the next visit a patient could be waiting anywhere between two and eleven hours for proper attention.
Maternity wards throughout New Zealand have come under increasing pressure through the past few years because of the lack of midwives in the medical workforce. There is also a steady decline in the number of GPs who are willing to perform the midwifery function – a common practice of years gone by. Giving birth is no picnic, with an array of complications that can arise for both mother and baby. Before professional maternity wards and modern birthing procedures, dying in childbirth was a very real possibility. But possible modern complications still persist, including but not limited to preterm labour, placenta issues, bleeding issues and foetal distress.
Wellington Hospital has recently come under scrutiny for sending a mother and a newborn baby home within hours of delivery. The birth itself was difficult and the woman was a first time mother, so sending her home so early is against policy and is unethical. The death of a baby boy at Capital and Coast's Kenepuru Maternity Ward during delivery prompted huge online complaints against Wellington Hospital, the maternity ward and the mother and baby's independent midwife. When questioned by Salient, Capital and Coast spokesperson Micheal Tull tried to distance Capital and Coast from the death by emphasising the independent midwife. The midwife was a recent graduate and failed to diagnose the breech birth. Her midwife supervisor looked on during the birth and "assured the duty midwife that she was doing well". Tull also stressed that a review of the death, sponsored by the Ministry of Health, would be made public shortly.
Complaints surrounding the 'DIY' style of Wellington Hospital's post-natal care and the limited space available arose after one woman was put in the gynaecology ward, so she was alongside women who had just lost their babies. Campbell Live recently reported on how hectic the Wellington maternity ward is and how it is far from a peaceful environment for mother and baby. Mother Angela Mansford told Campbell Live that "overflowing wards and a shortage of staff would lead to mistakes being made."
Capital and Cost District Health Board tried to give women having their subsequent child a hundred-dollar grocery voucher for leaving the hospital early. They later withdrew the offer after being accused of bribery and pandering to vulnerable mothers. A stay of longer than six hours at the hospital is needed for mother and baby to check for problems as well as to establish a bond and breastfeeding.
It seems New Zealand, a country plagued with domestic violence and dysfunctional homes, is yet again neglecting children's needs. There is currently no private user-pays alternative to public maternity and post-natal care units. There was a professional maternity hospital in Wellington during the 1980s but it was later closed for the supposed superior services at Wellington and Kenepuru Hospitals.
An anonymous source from Otago University's School of Medicine told Salient that it is "general knowledge" that junior doctors and interns at Wellington Hospital are not "given much direction or guidance by senior staff" as a result of bad management and illogical rostering. Interns need a system of checks and balances, which should be provided by Wellington's senior staff. According to the source, interns "need senior knowledge to avoid errors and misdiagnosis" and "too much self-direction for inexperienced people in the medical profession is never a good thing." Capital and Coast spokesperson Michael Tull acknowledges that Wellington Hospital does have a senior staff shortage but told Salient that "it is not impacting on our ability to provide 24/7 senior medical staff cover." Tull even went as far to say that the "level of cover is no different to when we are fully staffed." Tull also assured us that the senior medical staff are all working additional hours to ensure that the unit is well supported by senior staff 24/7. These long hours worked by staff, although necessary, are questionable when snap (potentially 'life or death') decisions have to be made by the tired and fatigued. Rumours of widespread staff discontent and a documented rise in errors is hardly surprising under these conditions.
Last year Capital and Coast District Health Board underwent a massive managerial shakeup. In December CEO Margot Mains quit her post (to be replaced by Ken Whelan) amid claims the DHB was almost $10 million in debt. Health Minister David Cunliffe then sacked chairperson Judith Collins in December to bring in Sir John Anderson, a former TVNZ chairperson, due to preceived managerial inflexibility under the old regime. These changeovers highlighted low staff morale within the organisation, although it is hoped that the change should set Capital and Coast on the road to good health. Underneath the controversies, issues of inadequate funding remain. District Health Boards are funded on a per-capita basis, and Capital and Coast, with a population of 276,000, is considerably smaller than Auckland or Canterbury – but its hospitals service a total of almost 900,000 people from the entire lower North Island, which is not factored into funding. This leaves Capital and Coast in a uniquely difficult position.
Despite media attention on "dwindling resources" Capital and Coast spokesperson Michael Tull denied any funding problems. "We have the budget to employ staff – there aren't staff available to employ," Tull said. Although there is short staffing in maternity services (here and in many other parts of New Zealand) "this is not related to any lack of funding." Tull left the alleged "dwindling resources" unaddressed. The business ethos of Wellington Hospital was accidentally implied to Salient through Tull's description of mothers in labour as "consumers." If we follow this ethos, maternity service could start to mirror Turkey's, where the majority of births are done through caesarean sections, so hospitals can book mothers in to give birth at a specific time to avoid over-crowding.
The new $300 million Wellington Hospital is currently being built and sure does look pretty, but does it address the hospital's real problems?[ssba]
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Another well written piece…
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Wo, maternity war! That sounds extreme. I went to hospital this year and they sent me home even though I was in no state to leave, coz they wanted the bed. Jip. I was enjoying my free hospital food.
AND they stole my pillowcase. Biarches.
I have been to the hospital once this year and once last year. In my most recent visit I was left out in the hallway for 4 hours and then had to wait for a lumbar puncture. The first doctor (a junior doctor) that tried didn't get it right, neither did the second who was from the next shift. The third doctor, an attending, managed to get the sweet sweet spinal fluid out. Thankfully nothing was wrong with me.
The time I went last year was interesting because I was jaundiced and no one could figure out what was wrong with me. I spent about 4 hours in A&E till they decided to put me in a quaranteen room. Which was pretty sweet. They discharged me three days later feeling much better.
All the staff were awesome on both occasions cept for this year when a male nurse of scottish or english extraction yelled at me, because he thought I was faking being ill. Yeah.. good one buddy.
I think the state of modern medicine is amazing. In the last 100 years we've come leaps and bounds. But I won't complain about our health system even if it is shit because at least we have one, at least it is affordable and accesable to 95% of the population.
I'm worried… am mean't to be going in there to get a lung removed and looks like they'll be more likely to remove a testicle, which could be a comparitively positive outcome!!!… What the hell is going on there?
last time i went into accident and emergency with a severe injury, it was severe blood everywhere. I was sent to an after hours clinic down the road after 4 hours, where i was charged $100 for the treatment. Nation of DIY we are called, maybe i should do that in future. The docs have to stay but a serious analysis of where the problems lie has to be addressed, underfunding is not an accurate excuse, but it is valid.
im worried about the health system. ive got 3 wisdom teeth that need extracting but no community services card. i live week to week and cant afford to go private. i actually dont know what to do. cant u die from mouth infections?
Yes. Yes you can. You're probably dying right now.


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After enduring a parade of humiliations, including having a potential guest on Maury who likes to make autofellatio jokes about his colleagues installed above him, Sean Spicer resigned as press secretary in July (the aforementioned Anthony "The Mooch" Scaramucci followed 11 days later).
By the time he hung up his ill-fitting suit, Spicer had become a pop-culture phenomenon thanks to Melissa McCarthy's dazzling, Emmy-winning sendup of him on Saturday Night Live—a parody that reportedly got under President Donald Trump's skin—"[it was] Spicer's portrayal by a woman that was most problematic in the president's eyes." Given the president's aversion to the all-female Ghostbusters and his gross history of misogyny, the stance wasn't all that surprising.
Spicer also lied. Constantly. He lied about Trump's inauguration size, stating it was "the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period." He lied in backing Trump's unsubstantiated claim that there were three million fraudulent votes in the 2016 presidential election. He lied when he defended Trump's bogus claim that President Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower. He refused to answer whether President Trump believed in climate change or not. He once said of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, "You had someone as despicable as Hitler, who didn't even sink to using chemical weapons." Politifact concluded that Spicer told the truth 9 percent of the time.
Well, "Spicey" is now back in the public eye and on Jimmy Kimmel's couch.
The Jimmy Kimmel Live! host welcomed Spicer to his late-night program on Wednesday, where the two partook in an incredibly awkward 20-minute interview about Spicer's fraught tenure as Trump's White House press secretary.
Right off the bat, Kimmel grilled Spicer on the first lie he told as press secretary: that President Trump had the largest inauguration crowd size in history, despite photographic evidence (of Obama's inauguration) to the contrary.
"If it was up to you, would this even have been a topic?" asked Kimmel.
"If it was up to me, I probably would have worn a different suit," said Spicer. "The president wanted to make sure the record got set straight."
"Why is he so concerned with size? Have you ever seen the president naked?" added Kimmel.
"I have not," replied a red-faced Spicer.
At times throughout the interview, Spicer appeared to try and distance himself from President Trump, reiterating several times that it was "my job to speak on his behalf" and that Trump would correct him if he felt he'd spoken out of turn or articulated a point poorly. "Whether or not you agree isn't your job. Your job is to give him advice," Spicer explained of his post. He also claimed that he had a special alert on his phone for when the president tweeted, and, when asked if the president ever ran a tweet by him before pushing it out, he replied, "Uhhh…I don't believe…maybe once or twice."
Kimmel also pressed Spicer on his defense of "alternative facts," with Spicer once claiming from the White House podium, "I think sometimes we can disagree with the facts."
"Can we though… disagree with the facts?!" asked an animated Kimmel.
"Well, look, I think the point is that you can look at a set of—an argument or a set of facts—and come out with one opinion, and someone else can say, well, the facts are the same here, I come out with a different conclusion. That's what makes our country great."
Spicer also took several shots at the press. When queried on whether he agreed that "the majority" of journalists were just hard-working people trying to seek the truth, Spicer said yes, but then complained about times where journalists often "created a story out of whole cloth that didn't exist"—without providing any examples of said behavior. (A follow-up would have been nice here, Jimmy.) Spicer also accused the White House press corps of a code of silence, saying, "They need to understand that when they cross the line, when a member of the press corps crosses the line, that they have a responsibility to help pull that in. And I've never seen a group of individuals who protect themselves like the press corps does—especially the White House press corps. They've never once, during my tenure and at least to my recollection, ever called out someone who has crossed the line on a story."
This is a particularly egregious statement, and one that appears to describe President Trump more than anyone else. Unlike, say, the police, who refuse to speak ill of their fellow cops—even when they kill an unarmed citizen—the press are very quick to criticize and dismiss colleagues who have committed journalistic wrongdoing as it's viewed as a stain on the entire profession, especially when the president himself is using the standard authoritarian technique of eroding trust in the fourth estate in order to control the narrative.
Spicer sadly refused to spill any tea concerning The Mooch, offering, "I just didn't feel as though he had the qualifications or the background to work in the communications office." He said being parodied by a woman on SNL "may have been a contributing factor" to Trump being particularly annoyed by the portrayal, and he told Kimmel he wouldn't be writing a tell-all book, calling that a potential "act of betrayal" (without mentioning, of course, that he can't write a tell-all because Trump had everyone—save Reince Priebus, who reportedly refused—sign NDAs.)
Kimmel, however, refused to press Spicer on the biggest news of the week: how he'd potentially handle Ted Cruz's porn "like," and his replacement Sarah Huckabee Sanders calling for the firing of a citizen—ESPN's Jemele Hill—for criticizing the president. Then again, Kimmel isn't exactly known as a tough late-night interviewer, which is presumably why he was chosen in the first place.


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CONTRACT ON CHERRY STREET: Ol' Blue Eyes Vs. The Mob… And The System
Did you know that Frank Sinatra could have played the role of Dirty Harry? He was one of several actors originally approached for the role (John Wayne was another) but he bypassed the role. Having Sinatra in that iconic role would have been very different but it could have been interesting – he was moving in that direction with films like Tony Rome and The Detective. However, the world had to wait until 1977 to see Ol' Blue Eyes tackle the cop genre again – and when he did, it trafficked in Dirty Harry-styled themes of a flawed system and the temptation to go outside the law for justice.
Contract On Cherry Street was Sinatra's return to acting, an epic made-for-television film produced by his own company and adapted from a novel by Philip Rosenberg. In it, Sinatra plays Inspector Frank Hovannes, the head of an Organized Crime Unit for the NYPD. He's trying to nail a chop shop operated by mobsters but his targets are clever and elusive – and the grind of dealing with gleefully defiant hoods and pressure from the administration to deliver something is becoming demoralizing for Frank's team, particularly the world-weary Captain Ernie Weinberg (Martin Balsam).
However, the hoods overplay their hand when they shoot down a member of Frank's team during a raid. The squad vow revenge and this leads them to plot an assassination of the mobster behind the chop shop. The idea is turn the mobsters against a rival outfit led by a Jewish mobster, Waldman (Martin Gabel). Unfortunately, Frank learns the hard way that vengeance has a ripple effect on both the targets and his own men – and the revenge they take has tragic consequences for all involved.
The result is not the kind of safe cops and robbers fare you might expect from an actor making a comeback. Contract On Cherry Street has a profoundly noir-ish level of cynicism from the get-go, with Sinatra and his men trying to keep their heads above water as they deal with crooks who don't have to play by any rules and superiors who expect them to work miracles. Once the cops open the Pandora's Box of revenge, they slowly come to realize that as bad as things were before, there was at least a sense of balance, however precarious it might be. Once blood is shed, it only leads to further bloodshed that can only be ended with a tremendous sacrifice.
These dark themes connect well thanks to a smart script from veteran screenwriter Edward Anhalt that downplays action in favor of character study and never shies away from the corrosive consequences of the cops' law-defying actions. Despite its made-for-t.v. status, Contract On Cherry Street also has a convincing grittiness thanks to plenty of location shooting that lends a convincing backdrop to the film's streetwise tone. Director William Graham gives it all a gritty, French Connection-style vibe, lending some kinetic verve to the film's handful of action setpieces and creating an appropriately tough yet melancholy tone that fits the material perfectly.
Contract On Cherry Street cements its appeal by giving Sinatra a superb supporting cast. For example, consider the squad Sinatra leads up: not only does it have Balsam as his second in command but it also includes Henry Silva, Harry Guardino and a young Michael Nouri. They all acquit themselves well but the ones who register most strongly are Balsam, who gets a great, bitter monologue early on about the plight of their Crime Unit and Guardino, who is the member of the team most adversely affected by their path of revenge. On the criminal side of things, highlights include an amusing supporting turn from Steve Inwood, who deploys all manner of Al Pacino-style tics as a nervous informant, and a young Robert Davi as half of an ambitious brother team of hoods.
Finally, there is Sinatra himself. As you might expect, he has no problem showing streetwise cool and acting tough: his repartee with Johnny Barnes in the first half of the film is a big highlight, with Barnes portraying a smart-aleck hood who engages in battles of macho temperament with Sinatra. However, what really impresses is the subtlety with which he conveys his character's world-weariness. You get a hint of this early on in his banter with Balsam but it really pays off in a big way during the film's final third. The sad realizations he comes to during the third act pack a punch, yet they are deftly underplayed.
Simply put, Contract On Cherry Street is worth rediscovering. Whether you're a fan of Ol' Blue Eyes or just love gritty cop fare from the 1970's, there's plenty of worthy material for both camps here.


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This is a continuation of:History of the WWE Title Part 1History of the WWE Title Part 2.
Savage made an effective champion, he was an extremely talented in-ring competitor and his title defenses against the top heels of the era (Ted DiBiase, Andre the Giant etc) were fresh matches that intrigued fans unused to seeing anyone but Hogan in main event matches. Inevitably however plans were to put the title back on Hogan, to facilitate this Savage turned heel in an angle in which his paranoia over Hogan's relationship with his manager/girlfriend Miss Elizabeth drove him over the edge and he brutally attacked Hogan. It culminated with Hogan regaining the title after a very good match at WrestleMania V.
Hogan was as successful as he had been before, he continued to draw money and spent the rest of 1989 continuing his feud with Savage. At the start of the new decade Hogan became engaged in a short feud with the talented Curt Henning. All of this was profitable business but the WWF knew nothing lasts forever so they began to prepare a successor for Hogan. The man they chose was a muscle bound Queens native known as The Ultimate Warrior. Warrior was a terrible wrestler but he was built like a Greek god and the WWF had pushed him very well disguising his weaknesses in the ring by having him annihilate his opponents in minutes and as a consequence he had built up a huge fan following.
The WWF built up an intriguing face versus face feud between Warrior and Hogan which would culminate in a match at WrestleMania VI in the cavernous Toronto Skydome, which would put the Warrior's Intercontinental belt up against Hogan's World Title.
The match itself was surprisingly good and finished with Warrior getting the win after a big splash. After the match Hogan hugged Warrior and presented him with the belt as a sort of passing of the torch gesture. The Ultimate Warrior's future as the WWF world champion was looking rosy.
Unfortunately that wasn't the case. The WWF had not prepared a top heel for Warrior to feud with and a champion is always only as good as his challengers. So Warrior was left to battle with 'Ravishing' Rick Rude. Rude was a superb wrestler and had inflicted Warrior's first defeat at WrestleMania V but the victory was portrayed as a fluke and despite his talent fans didn't see him as a threat to Warrior's title. Another problem was that as champion Warrior could no longer squash his opponents and was forced to wrestle in matches at least ten minutes long and these matches (with the notable exception of his win over Hogan and a few others) usually ranged from below average to just plain abysmal.
So the WWF had Warrior drop the belt to Sgt. Slaughter at the 1991 Royal Rumble in Miami. The comparisons between Slaughter and The Iron Sheik are numerous; like Sheik Slaughter was only considered an average wrestler but also like Sheik he took advantage of the prejudices of the era by portraying an Iraqi sympathizer during the first gulf war. Obviously like Sheik he was only a transitional champion and the man to beat him would of course be Hulk Hogan.
Just like they had in the seventies putting the belt back on Sammartino after Morales failed, the WWF went back to Hogan as a worthy champion bound to bring prestige back to the title. He took the first steps to doing just that by beating Slaughter for the title at WrestleMania VII.
Hogan held the belt for the next eight months, defending it against all comers until he rather unexpectedly lost to the Undertaker, a veritable newcomer to the Federation. The Undertaker had entered the WWF a year earlier at the 1990 Survivor Series and had been on a rampage since then, and although he eventually lost to Hogan in the autumn of 1991 it was clear that the war was far from over, so a championship rematch was signed for Survivor Series 1991 in Detroit Michigan. Taker got the win amid controversy that included interference from Ric Flair and Taker's manager Paul Bearer. They met again eight days later at 'Tuesday in Texas' with the WWF on-air president Jack Tunney at ringside to ensure fair play. Hogan got a cheated win while Tunney was incapacitated. Due to the controversy, Tunney stripped Hogan of the title and put it up for grabs in the 30 man Royal Rumble in Albany, New York.
The 1992 Royal Rumble was a classic that featured Ric Flair entering in at number three and lasting over an hour to win the Rumble and the championship. Now, not only did the WWF have an undisputed champion, not only had it been won in a classic match, not only was it held by the man who some considered to the very best ever, but it also set up a dream match that fans had almost drooled over the thought of for years: Ric Flair versus Hulk Hogan.
The obvious stage for the match would be WrestleMania VIII in Indianapolis but despite several build-up house-show bouts the match at 'Mania never occurred. Hogan was planning to retire and wanted to go out on top by beating Flair for the belt and retiring as an undefeated champion. Vince McMahon didn't like the thought of anyone retiring without losing the belt and 'passing the torch' so he cancelled the match. Instead, Flair lost the championship to 'Macho Man' Randy Savage in a fantastic, emotionally charged match at WrestleMania.
Savage reigned for five months before Flair took the title back in September. For all his talent, however, Flair was to be only a transitional champion, he spent the next month facing Bret Hart in a series of good house-show confrontations before dropping it in a terrible match (Flair was injured going into the match) on October 12 1992.
With guys like Hogan and the Warrior leaving, and Savage's best days behind him, McMahon decided to build the company around younger guys like Hart, Shawn Michaels, Razor Ramon and Yokozuna.
Going into 1993, Hart was proving himself a good champion, but not yet a big ratings draw. This was mainly due to the fact that business for WWF was poor generally back then and because his match with Flair wasn't televised - the majority of fans had yet to see him beat a big star.
However, McMahon had a plan - Hart would successfully defend his title against the surprisingly talented and seemingly unstoppable Yokozuna and WrestleMania IX. Yokozuna was a 500-pound mammoth who had debuted in late 1992 and dominated his opponents since then, he eliminated seven men on his way to winning the 1993 Royal Rumble, thus earning himself a shot at the WWF title at WrestleMania IX. The plan was that the fans would think that if Hart could stop this monster, he would undoubtedly be a worthy champion.
Unfortunately, Hulk Hogan had other ideas. The WWF had brought Hogan back after a severe drop in ratings and attendances in 1992. One of the conditions on his return was that he had creative control over his character. Hogan decided that he was too much of a big star to compete at tag match at WrestleMania (with Brutus Beefcake against Money Inc.) and booked a storyline in which he would lose the tag match by DQ but return later on the card and defeat Yokozuna (who in this scenario would defeat Hart) in a matter of seconds for the title. McMahon grudgingly agreed and all went according to (Hogan's) plan
While the double title change was exciting and entertaining, it made both Yoko and Hart look bad and two title changes in one night couldn't have helped the title's prestige. But McMahon had another plan - he'd let Hogan have his way at WrestleMania if Hogan would return the favor by dropping the belt to Hart before retiring, thus giving Hart the big title victory he both needed and deserved. It is unknown whether or not Hogan ever agreed but some time after WrestleMania, he either changed his mind or refused, saying that Hart was too small to be a star and that he didn't want to drop the title cleanly. Angered by this, McMahon had Yokozuna squash Hogan at the inaugural King of the Ring PPV with the plan that Yoko would hold the belt until the next year's WrestleMania when Bret or someone else was ready to step up to the plate and defeat him.
That 'somebody else' looked to be Lex Luger. Luger underwent a persona change in the summer of 1993 transforming from the Narcissist to a patriotic American hero. He became the first man to slam Yokozuna in July 4 at a special Independence Day event. Luger then challenged Yoko to a title match at SummerSlam, but Yoko's managers Mr Fuji and Jim Cornette stipulated that it would be Luger's only shot at the title (only in storyline, of course). Unfortunately for Luger, he won via count-out and so didn't capture the title meaning his only chance to get another shot would be by winning the Royal Rumble in January.
Luger spent the next five months bouncing around the WWF's upper card while Yoko began a decent feud with the Undertaker. And what of Bret" During that time he seemed to fade out of the World title picture, feuding with Jerry Lawler and teaming with his brother Owen.
Then came Royal Rumble '94: Luger's last chance to get a shot at the belt, Bret's opportunity to show that he was not done as a main eventer. Yoko, meanwhile, was defending the title against the Undertaker. In the end, Yoko retained the title and, against all odds, the Rumble came down to Bret (who had had his leg injured and was betrayed by Owen earlier in the night) and Luger, who had been attacked by Fuji's henchmen, Tenryu and the Great Kabuki prior to his entry in the Rumble match. In an unprecedented finish, Luger and Bret eliminated each other simultaneously to become co-winners of the Royal Rumble.
So after much debating and deliberating (on and off air), WrestleMania X was to pan out like this: Bret would wrestle Owen in the night's opening contest. Later on the card, Luger would battle Yoko for the title and the winner of that match would face Hart in the main event. Rumour had it that Luger was originally scheduled to win the title but plans were changed when Luger revealed this to a journalist while drunk. Whether or not this is true is irrelevant. What actually did happen is the following: Owen upset Bret in a stellar match, special referee Mr Perfect controversially disqualified Luger in his title match and Bret defeated Yoko for the title in the main-event.
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Here's a piece of good news about the foreclosure mess and the overall bad housing market. Good news in this arena is as rare as snowmen in the summer, so I wanted to pass it along right away.
An acquaintance called me some days ago to tell me he successfully got his mortgage company to renegotiate his mortgage loan terms. Woot! Woot!
The Original Mortgage
- Taken out in 2003
- 5 year ARM, Interest Only payments at 5.875%
- Payments of 882.32 per month (interest only, not touching principle)
The New Mortgage
- 3.875% fixed rate for 40 years
- about $400 payment needed to start the new plan
This is phenomenal news! On your average $200,000 mortgage, this renegotiation brings the payment down from about $1183/month to $820/month.
Congratulations Tom!
The homeowner in this case had suffered both a medical disability and a job loss. Both these events are typically "qualifying events" for almost every mortgage company. Experiencing a qualifying event means you're eligible for the mortgage company's renegotiation plans.
Haven't had a job loss or medical disability? It's still worth contacting your lender if you're struggling to make the current payment, or if you know you soon will struggle when the adustable rate (ARM) adjusts in the future.
Further good news on the credit card front --
Another friend of mine fell 2 months behind on credit card payments. He had a 5 to 15 year good payment history on the various cards. He's 100% commission in a profession related to the housing industry, so times are tight.
Bank of America contacted him and offered their "Hardship Program" --
Old Payments
- Card 1 -- $382.00 per month at 28.99%, payoff time about 40 years
- Card 2 -- $213.00 per month at 15.22%, same
New Payments under B of A's "Hardship Program"
- Card 1 -- $200 per month at 4.75%, payoff time 60 months
- Card 2 -- $168 per month at 4.50%, same
If you're falling behind on or struggling to pay any of your consumer debt, call the servicing company today! They're as scared of the word "recession" as we all are, and they're agreeing to reduced payment plans to avoid writing off the bad debt entirely.


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Earlier this year, Microsoft partnered with the government of São Paulo in Brazil to deploy a crime data aggregation and analysis platform called Detecta. Like a search engine, the system indexes large amounts of police information and creates automatic associations between the data, helping local authorities to improve the way they monitor and fight crime. The system is already making a difference but, to really justify their investment, authorities are looking to expand their use of it and find ways of collecting even more information to help local police do their jobs more effectively.
Detecta is based on the successful Domain Awareness System developed by Microsoft and New York City in 2012, which aggregates and analyses public safety data in real time, providing NYPD investigators and analysts with a comprehensive view of potential threats and criminal activity. As of last year, 6,000 security cameras were connected to DAS – one-third of which are police cameras, the rest are owned by private businesses.
Local authorities in São Paulo recognise that the more security cameras they have connected to their own system, the more information they will have at their disposal to tackle crime more effectively. In August, they had succeeded in connecting over 540 government-owned cameras to Detecta. In October they added another 120 privates cameras, but they still want to add significantly more.
To do this, authorities need to not only invest in more security cameras themselves; they also need to find a way of taking advantage of existing, privately-owned cameras that are already installed in local businesses, restaurants, shops and condominiums.
As Denis André Côté, who oversees the Brazilian operations of IP video surveillance specialist Genetec, explains, this is not as straightforward as it may seem. "Authorities must link more cameras to Detecta if they want to take advantage of its full potential, but they need to find a way of interfacing between this technically advanced system and the many many security cameras in São Paulo that all run on different systems, some of which are analogue," he says.
A neighbourhood association (Sociadade Amigos Vila Madalena) in Vila Madalena, an area in the western part of São Paulo, is working on a solution to this problem. It has partnered with Genetec to build its own monitoring centre that connects to public and privately owned cameras in the area, and links up with Detecta.
The system is based on Genetec's unified security platform called Security Center and is hosted on the Microsoft Azure cloud. Once it is fully up and running, it will be capable of pulling together all of the live video feeds being streamed from hundreds of cameras in the neighbourhood, giving local authorities the information they need to respond quickly to emergency calls, map crime statistics, gather evidence, and more.
"This system has been built to serve as bridge between Detecta and the disparate security camera network in Madalena's streets," says Côté. "Not only will officers be able to view live video streams from the central monitoring centre, but they will also be able to access information on their mobile devices while they're out in the field. Importantly, the system also connects to Detecta, providing São Paulo's authorities with the valuable information they need to increase their crime prevention efforts and improve police investigations."
Because the solution is hosted on Microsoft's cloud computing platform, it will also be affordable to run – both in the short and long term. "We will charge a fee per month to run the system and store the data it collects," says Côté. "This makes the infrastructure very manageable from a cost perspective as the association simply pays for what it's using, rather than having to make a large upfront investment. It also means that the association doesn't have to pay out initially for more storage capacity than it needs, or worry about running out of storage in future."
At the moment, Côté is working with his team at Genetec alongside the neighbourhood association to get a pilot up and running. "We currently just have a few cameras connected to the system, but we expect to add exponentially more in the coming weeks," he says.
If successful, Côté hopes that the system will be deployed in other neighbourhoods across São Paulo and further afield too.
"Today, funds and resources are tighter than ever in the public sector," he says. "Government leaders are beginning to realise the power of partnering with the private sector, and it is initiatives like this that demonstrate just how effective we can be if we work better together and take advantage of what's already out there."
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I've been a dentist for 24 years and it still amazes me that the number one reason people leave their last dentist was that "they did work on me that I really didn't think I needed." This statement always elicits two questions I usually keep to myself. First, "What kind of dentist would do that?" and secondly, "What kind of patient would allow someone to do that to them if they had doubts?" If you have any doubts about what your dentist is telling you that you need, you should never be scared to get up and walk out BEFORE treatment is done. Dentists can have differing opinions about what needs to get done and how to go about treating it but any dentist worth their salt will welcome the second opinion and facilitate forwarding their treatment plan and relevant x-rays to you so you can get a second opinion. However, if you sense there might be tension in the room, just do whatever you can to leave that office. A high-pressure dental office is usually up to no good.
Why would dentists have such varied opinions on what needs to be done in your mouth? In some cases, there is a legitimate debate on how to approach a particular issue. For example, if you have large amalgams (silver fillings) in your mouth which are over 20 years old and show tangible signs of decay, some dentists may treat the tooth by doing a large filling, some may choose an only and others may recommend a crown. The dentist should be able to show you where the defect is by use of x-rays and intraoral photos and explain to you in a way that makes sense to you, what needs to get done. For reference, in our practice, all of our Valencia dentists will approach any tooth hoping to do the most conservative treatment (a filling) but if we start working on the tooth and find there is little tooth structure left, we will resort to doing a crown. However, there should be recognition that there will be some varying opinions by different dentists on how to treat a particular issue.
Sadly, there are dentists out there that are just plain dishonest and will recommend treatment that you really don't need. Their primary reason for doing this is for money. We see this more often than I would care to admit especially as more and more dental insurances move toward "in-network PPO's" and HMO's. Not all dentists that are PPO or HMO dentists are bad – in fact, there are some very good dentists that accept PPO plans and maybe even HMO plans. But the temptation to overdiagnose or just lie about the treatment that is needed is certainly there in these practices.
PPO dental networks work by having a dentist sign a contract that they will agree to charge a certain fee for certain procedures that are being done. The dentist is then considered in network. The fees that the dentist can charge are often 35 to 50% less than usual and customary fees. That means that the PPO dentist is pressured to use cheaper inferior materials, hire lower paid, less experienced staff and do a greater volume of work in order to still remain profitable. There are certain procedures that are not covered by PPO plans thus if the patient wishes to do them, it will be completely out of pocket at a price set by the dentist and not by the PPO. Often times these prices are outrageous and the treatment wasn't necessary in the first place. Dental cleanings may only last 15 minutes and may not even be performed by a registered dental hygienist.
HMO dental networks work by recruiting dentists to accept a number of patients and take care of basic needs for free or a nominal co-payment. In turn, the HMO network will pay them a set fee every month regardless if the patients come in for their care or not. There are many dental procedures that are not covered through the HMO plan and if the patient needs them the patient will pay for them out of pocket. This is where a HMO practice can make money. By performing minimal "free" preventative work and "diagnosing" procedures not covered by the HMO, the HMO dental practice can turn a profit. As is the case with PPO's, HMO practices are pressured to use cheaper inferior materials and hire inexperienced low cost staff in order to bring costs down. Profitability lies in increasing volume of patients and diagnosing procedures that are not covered.
Not all PPO or even HMO dental practices are bad. To the contrary there are many that probably good that our practice never sees because their work is good and their patients are happy. And I am certainly not advocating that everyone reading this blog post come to our practice because I am well aware there are plenty of well qualified and an honest dentists out there who do amazing dentistry. The message I would like all dental patients out there to understand is that it is ok to ask for a second opinion. Trust yourself as an intelligent being to make sure you can see and understand the treatment your dentist is proposing for you. Listen to that little voice in your head if something doesn't feel right to you. Don't be afraid to say "no" to doing any extensive and expensive treatment at the time it is being diagnosed. And finally, don't be afraid to ask for a copy of all your records. They are your records and x-rays and by law, the dentist must release them to you in a format that is diagnostic quality for a reasonable fee for duplication (usually 10-50 dollars). Since many offices now use digital x-rays, it is very easy to get accurate x-rays through email or on DVD.
In my next post, I will outline specific criteria to look for on the most common dental procedures and how to avoid receiving inappropriate treatment.


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The first step to writing a book is having a passion. People say "write what you know". That is somewhat essential for the book to make sense. But most importantly, write what you love – what you're passionate about. Write about something that you believe in. Don't bother writing about a subject that you're a professional in but don't care about enough. This is why I will probably never write a book about piano playing.
How does one make it through the difficult stages of planning a novel and then writing the complete work? And afterward, editing it to death? And after that, earning next to nothing from it? It's quite simple: one has to care. You have to care immensely about what you're writing about. The message you are delivering has to be of infinite importance to you. You have to believe that if you didn't say it, no one else would say it – at least not quite in the way that you would. You have to believe that it will help people, better them, change them. And if you don't, maybe it's not worth writing. Maybe you should stop here. Maybe you shouldn't go any further.
When it came to writing my own series, telling my personal story of salvation made me passionate enough to keep going. I wrote it because I hoped it would encourage others, even others who have struggled or gone through really tough times.
This isn't a very practical tip. But without passion, you will literally get nowhere. Those who write to sell might get where they want to be in the end. They might be earning very well from their erotica or vampire love stories. But the reward of creating a work of art that has made you a better person and stands to make other people better is worth far more than that. Additionally, good art is not about consumerism. I personally believe sometimes those who write primarily to sell should have stopped before they started. The world would be a better place without Fifty Shades of Grey.
So what about you? Where does your passion lie? How will you make a difference?


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PORTSMOUTH, Va. (D5 Public Affairs) – Six local Coast Guard members from Coast Guard Integrated Support Command Portsmouth, Va., are scheduled to participate in a Locks of Love charity event Wednesday, July 16 at ISC Portsmouth.
The six participants will donate their hair to Locks of Love, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing high quality hair prosthetics to children under the age of 18. Most of the children helped by the organization have lost their hair due to a medical condition called alopecia areata, which has no known cause or cure.
"I've been growing my hair out over two years now and when I realized it would be long enough to donate, that is when the planning for the event started," said Lt. Cdr. Kerry Karwan, a participant of the event. "I've volunteered at children's hospitals and have seen first hand the challenges they face. This is just another way for me to help kids."


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Did you miss Mope & Femi's prewedding post? Catch up HERE if you did. As promised, we now have the official pictures from the couple's traditional and white wedding ceremony, which took place on the 3rd of January 2015. We posted first pictures a couple of weeks back, catch up HERE if you missed it. The bride is the younger sister of former Speaker of the House of Representatives – Dimeji Bankole.
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Sleeping with the Fishes: Life as a Live-Aboard
Author: Craig Hysell
There are those out there with the sea in their bones. Men and women who live the transient life. Romantic, modern-day nomads who explore the world from hull and helm. Staying in exotic ports of call with names easily mangled by the English tongue.
They spend their lives amongst a cast of colorful rogues, downing cool drinks in turquoise waters. Their hardy vessels rest on the hook (anchor) just offshore. Their skin is tan, their hair is salty and their lips spill forth adventure.
Then reality sets in. And they have to figure out how to pack the contents of their home into 300 square feet of cabin space.
Living aboard a boat is not without a significant, sometimes dangerous, degree of challenge. Romance fades with the first six- to eight-foot sea or toilet malfunction. And it takes a particular type of person to truly enjoy what can often be a cramped, merciless and unrelentingly unpredictable state of affairs.
Mark Nichols, author of The Essentials of Living Aboard A Boat; The Definitive Guide for Liveaboards, places liveaboards into two categories, "cruising" and "non-cruising." Non-cruisers are primarily located at a slip and leave for short excursions while cruisers are "chronically underway." Definitions which seem to be as open and broad as the oceans themselves.
Liveaboards are not an exact science. They are retirees and dreamers, smugglers and outlaws. They can be hell bent on adventure or simply wish to leave society behind. They can be rusting deadbeats or sunny-eyed "guppie-kissers." (sea slang for "tree-huggers"). They can be travel enthusiasts, relationship escape artists or just want to pay less cash for a water view.
But one thing remains steadfast, in broad terms or concise, if one is to have any longevity living on a boat he must be practical, because, on the ocean, facts trump dreams every time.
Boats constantly depreciate. They make noise. They smell of fuel, waste and sea. Condensation is a constant problem. Insulation is nearly non-existent. Clothing and bedding get damp. Stoves usually only have one burner and galleys have practically no refrigeration.
Space is severely limited. Clutter is a safety issue. There is always something to repair; sometimes it's your very life hinging on ingenious solutions. There is safety gear to consider and marina facilities to mull over—Georgia doesn't even allow liveaboards past 30 days and South Carolina amended a law in 2006 whereby boats are now "subject to property tax in this state if present for 120 consecutive days or 180 days in the aggregate in a property tax year."
What about children? The coming storm? Stores of fresh water?
And that's just the tip of the iceberg… of which one must also possess the knowledge and capability of avoiding when traveling at sea.
Down at the marina, where numerous vessels lie gently at the dock and a steady breeze rings the rigging off the mainmast, a unique person might be residing below decks, doing his or her best to earn passage in life. And telling tales of adventure.
Greg and Kaytee Esser
By Kate Hanzalk
Go to Shelter Cove, past the statue of Neptune, over the Disney bridge, and you will find Kaytee and Greg Esser on their boat, Rachael. Kaytee will likely be painting on the fly bridge—her art studio, where vibrantly colored canvases of oil-painted dogs line the white leather seats. Two easels hold her latest portraits: Sasha, the golden retriever who lives on their dock and Miller, a retriever from the Chesapeake Bay who is deceased. With her impressive collection, it's easy to overlook the picturesque 360-degree view of the Harbour.
Greg, a man whose most adored possessions (aside from Kaytee and Rachael) are jeans and t-shirts (although occasionally he must don a suit and tie), can be found tinkering with the engines below or listening to slow jazz on XM radio.
Depending on the time of day, the Essers may be entertaining guests in the trunk cabin or preparing something savory in the galley kitchen with their famed crockpot, which puts out aromas known to lure neighbors out of their boats and over to Rachael for dinner. Or, sometimes they'll venture out on the dingy to their favorite restaurant, The Ocean Grille, where they like to eat and have a glass of wine while looking over the marina.
At 43 feet long with a 14-foot beam, Rachael is an Ocean Alexander, a trawler, twin trunk cabin. Unlike sailboats, the ceilings in the cabin are quite high, six-feet-six-inches tall, and a dozen windows give way to loads of natural light. Among its many amenities, the boat boasts two comfortable bedrooms, two full bathrooms and two flat-screen TVs that are rarely watched.
The couple semi-retired five years ago and moved from their condo on the Ashley River in Charleston to live on Rachael. At the time, Kaytee knew very little about boats, but this was Greg's hobby and she was ready for the adventure.
Like the select few on Hilton Head Island who have chosen to live on their boats, the Essers see themselves as part of a larger "boat culture," a society that has lifted the weighty anchor of excessive materialism in order to bask in the ease and simplicity of life aquatic.
"Watching the dolphins playing, watching the sunsets—you see the world from such a different perspective altogether that it's worthwhile," said Kaytee.
Name: Kaytee Esser
Age: 54
Occupation: Artist
Birthdate: 10/53
Name: Greg Esser
Age: 60
Occupation: Consultant
Birthdate: 05/47
Q. How long have you lived on a boat?
A. Five years
Q. What is the name of your boat?
A. Rachael
Q. Where is your boat docked?
A. Shelter Cove
Q. What is the best part of living on a boat?
A. The freedom. The less stuff you have, the more freedom you have. That is our mantra.
Q. What is your least favorite part about living on a boat:
A. Nothing. We thought we would live on a boat for a year to try it. That should give you some idea that it's working because we are now at five years.
Q. How many years do you foresee yourself living on a boat?
A. Five to ten. We can move off if we want, but we're not anxious to do that.
Q. Do you have cable or satellite?
A. Cable
Q. Do you have a pet?
A. Einstein, the boat cat.
Q. What do you do when a storm is headed our way?
A. Shelter Cove is "shelter cove" for a reason—because of the way it is designed and tree-lined. We don't have to do much of anything.
Q. What other ports of call have you been docked in for extended periods of
A. Skull Creek and before that Port Royal. So we've been creeping further South. We don't like cold weather. We have spent time in all Southern states.
Q. How often do you take your boat out on the water?
A. We try to get out at least once a month and just tool around. We'll do overnights in several anchorages like the Cooper River.
*Q. * What are your hobbies?
A. Greg: I gave up all my hobbies. I left them all on shore so my hobby is pretty much the boat.
A. Kaytee: The boat is enough of a hobby. There are two big engines beneath you and they require attention. And any boat owner will tell you that if you live on a boat it becomes your project.
Q. Do you decorate your boat for Christmas?
A. Of course. Christmas is big time, because there are a lot of boats [at Shelter Cove] that do and some attend boat parades.
Q. Boat horror story?
A. An engine died on Cape Fear River. Someone was dredging and their nylon rope got wrapped around one propeller and totally stopped the engine. So here we are, Cape Fear River, with 45-knot winds and didn't have total control of the boat. This was a mess, especially on the first day we owned her!
Jaime Glynn
By Whitney Farmer
For an outdoorsy type of guy, there's no better place to live than, well, outdoors. And Jaime Glynn is definitely the outdoor type. He spends much of his free time mountain biking and fishing and loves the solitary vibe of boat-living—likely because he became accustomed to water life while growing up in Upstate New York.
"My parents had a boat. I spent weekends on Lake George growing up," Glynn said.
Aquatic life would catch up with Glynn again years later. Although he has only been on his current boat for about two years, it's the second time he has claimed the sea as his residence.
When Glynn was 28 years old, he lived on a boat for five years before he sold it and moved back on land. Now that he's settled into his current boat in Shelter Cove Harbour, he has a pretty ideal set-up. Only a few short minutes' walk to his job as executive chef at the Kingfisher, living in the harbour has provided him with his own built-in society.
"I have friends who live in the harbour," Glynn said. "It's like a community within a community."
Name: Jaime Glynn
Age: 36
Occupation: Executive chef at Kingfisher
Q. How long have you lived on a boat?
A. I had a boat before this one… I was 28. I sold that after five years and had an apartment here. I've lived on this one for two years, out of necessity. You might not want to print this, but my girlfriend kicked me out and I moved on my boat.
Q. What's your boat's name?
A. Mia Culpa. (My Fault)
Q. Where's your boat docked?
A. Shelter Cove
Q. What's the best part of living on a boat?
A. Probably the serenity.
Q. What's your least favorite thing about living on a boat?
A. When my air goes out and it's 120 degrees. That happened last Fourth of July.
Q. How many years do you foresee yourself living on a boat?
A. My long term goal is to retire in the Keys. I guess old enough that they have to drag me off to a nursing home.
Q. Do you have cable or satellite?
A. The Marina has both.
Q. Do you have any pets?
A. I have a miniature Pinscher, Mia. She was born when I was on the other boat. She's 6, I think.
Q. What do you do during storms?
A. This marina is so sheltered that sometimes you don't even realize it's raining. The boat doesn't even move. When I lived in a high-rise apartment you could feel the storms more up there than I do here.
Q. What other ports of call have you been docked in for extended periods of time?
A. I've always had my boat here.
Q. How often do you take your boat out on the water?
A. I have a little 13-foot runabout I take out pretty much daily. But this one, I would say one or two times a month I take it out for dinners or a fishing trip.
Q. What are your hobbies?
A. Honestly, just fishing. I like to be outside. I ride my mountain bike a lot.
Q. Do you decorate for Christmas?
A. No.
Q. Boat horror story?
A. I've got 50 thousand stories. The worst? I was out about 40-50 miles offshore fishing. It just started to get dark. As I was turning, the steering went out. Then, one engine went out. I had to get back with just a compass because the GPS went out. We ended up in the Savannah shipping channel when I thought we were in Hilton Head.
Fred Gauch
By Kate Hanzalik
Fred Gauch lives a Crosbian life (as in David Crosby minus the addictions). To know him is to know that he is both a musician and a sailor. He resides on his 35-foot ocean-rigged Hunter sailboat in Skull Creek, and many of his days are spent voyaging up and down the East Coast performing with his band, Melody Makers.
"It's just a nice free lifestyle for me. It's not for everybody," Gauch said.
The band has been around since the late '60s and is widely known for the hit song "Everlasting Love," which made the Top 10 East Coast Billboard Magazine poll in 1969, and their national hit, "Oreo Party Song." Their music is a mixture of old time rock and roll, Carolina beach music and a little bit of new country sound. Gauch practices most weekends when he's not doing gigs at beach music festivals, weddings and corporate functions. But he does have one free weekend a month that he tries to savor. A lot of times his friends will come over and they'll go sailing and have a few drinks on the boat or maybe a barbeque.
Gauch's boat, The Princess of Tides, has all of the amenities he needs for entertaining guests and sailing away into the sunset: GPS tracking, autopilot, two berths, a shower, a fully-equipped galley kitchen, a dining area and couch, central heat, and a flat screen TV. Up on deck, there is a rear cockpit with lots of space for gatherings.
"You have to have just what you need to get by," he said.
Being docked in Skull Creek, Gauch loves the quick access he has to the sound at any time of day. Often, he'll troll around after dinner and take in the quiet, a "Shadow Captain" in his own right.
Check out Melody Makers at www.melodymakerssc.com.
Name: Fred Gauch
Age: I've seen the sunny side of 50
Occupation: Entertainer
Birthday: November 20th
Q. How long have you lived on a boat?
A. Off and on for about 10 years.
Q. What is the name of your boat?
A. Princess of Tides
Q. Where is it docked?
A. Skull Creek
Q. What is the best part of living on a boat?
A. You're close to nature. Little bit of freedom.
Q. What is your least favorite thing about living on a boat?
A. Maintenance. You definitely have to be somebody who likes to tinker, if you live on a wood boat. But mine is a fiber glass boat, so maintenance isn't as bad. It's just like anything, but its more because you are in a saltwater environment that is very aggressive.
Q. How long do you foresee yourself living on a boat?
A. As long as I can handle the pressure.
Q. Do you have cable or a satellite?
A. Satellite dish. You have to be tied up to the dock to use it.
Q. Do you have a pet?
A. No pets.
Q. What do you do when a storm is headed our way?
A. Just batten down and ride it out.
Q. How often do you take your boat out on the water?
A. Try to take it out every weekend, sailing in the sounds, offshore.
Q. What are your hobbies?
A. Guitar and lead singer in Melody Makers. The band has been together 40 years. Had some hits out in the '60s and have just been able to keep it up.
Q. Do you decorate your boat for Christmas?
A. Yes! Most assuredly.
Q. Boat horror story?
A. I've run aground a few times—never been aground when I couldn't get out of it, but sailing with friends, they had a real exciting adventure trying to get unstuck. Ridden out a couple of the hurricanes that passed us offshore and stayed on the boat during storms at the marina. Normally the foul weather and everything that you have in your daily life, it's just like anything, you stay on it.
John Barlow and Jana Saidl
By Craig Hysell
He plays rugby. She's a black belt in karate. Their pit bull has a neck the size of an offensive lineman. But thirty-four-year-old John Barlow, Jana (pronounced Yana) Saidl and Elvis the dog are some of the friendliest creatures you could ever meet.
Something happened for John after 9/11. His work in New York had begun to feel disconnected, cutthroat, soulless. In the next few years that followed, Manhattan began to feel more like a prison than an opportunity. Boating became John and Jana's escape. "We started hanging around people that just wanted to have a barbecue and drink," said John. His eyes go distant for a moment at the memory. He smiles.
Although they knew The City didn't feel like home anymore, it took John and Jana several years to decide where they wanted to live. They took their time, cruising up and down both sides of the U.S. by boat and car, searching for that perfect place. Jana was also a top level concierge in New York and John had his own business to think about. There was a lot to give up. And there was a lot to gain.
In the fall of 2006, John and Jana finally arrived on Hilton Head Island. Today they own Lowcountry Liquor & Spirits, a successful package store in Bluffton. Their 38-ft. Bayliner, American Courage—A Tribute To 9/11, rests quietly, almost proudly, in Skull Creek Marina. And John feels like he has a soul again.
"When you live on a boat, you have to simplify things. You tend to get rid of all your clutter," he said, the metaphorical connotations whispering through the boat like the night breeze. "This is like Utopia. This is home."
Elvis, comfortably asleep, couldn't agree more.
Q. How long have you lived on your boat?
A. Two years.
Q. What's the best part about living on a boat?
A. You can pick up and leave whenever you choose; being outside, being on the water; feeling like you're always on vacation; in our lifestyle, nudity is accepted… [Laughs]
Q. What's your least favorite thing about living on a boat?
A. Limited space. [A little under 400 square feet in John and Jana's case.]
Q. How many years do you foresee yourself living on a boat?
A. Two or three more years.
Q. Do you have cable or a satellite?
A. Satellite.
Q. What do you do when a storm is headed your way?
A. Drink and watch scary movies.
Q. How often do you take your boat out on the water?
A. Once or twice a month.
Q. Do you decorate your boat for Christmas?
A. Yes!
Q. Boat horror story?
A. The Chicken Head Story. Jana was below decks making a sandwich in the galley when the boat hit a sandbar that had shifted over the winter doing nearly 17 knots. The contents of the refrigerator exploded into the galley from the impact. A frozen chicken that was sitting in the freezer gave Jana a good sized knot on the head. She decided to make a drink instead of a sandwich after that.
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Osmos for iPad
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Your goal is to grow by absorbing smaller motes, but to propel yourself you must eject matter behind you; it will cause you to shrink. From this fundamental balance, Osmos leads the player through ambient playgrounds, competitive Petri dishes, deep solar systems, dense mote-fields, and more. Osmos for iPad is just awesome. It has marvelous features including multi-touch awesomeness, two game modes, dynamic time-warping, eight distinct level types and Sublime electronic soundtrack. You can wind your way through simple and complex solar systems, feeling and using the force of Attractors and Repulsors. Osmos confront four distinct personalities of intelligent opponents, with goals and abilities similar to your own. It also has thirteen lucky achievements to earn, with OpenFeint integration.Osmos feels so natural and enjoyable to play. It's the best iPad game on the App Store right now and should be purchased by anyone who picks up the device. Its price is $.99. Buy it now.
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Users, not only, can change the tabs color but they can also change the color of full theme with full color and icon group management. Bu using Group Backup, you can restore contacts with Wi-Fi. This application is supported with full retina display. You can send contact info to anyone via email or SMS. This app is available in market at a price of $1.99.
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FIITJEE NAGPUR Center has secured the highest number of selections in the City Total 8 Students from FIITJEE Nagpur Centre got qualified in NTSE Stage- I, 2017-18.
9 FIITJEE's Long Term Classroom Program students have been declared State Toppers in NTSE Stage I, 2017-18(Delhi, Chandigarh, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh & West Bengal) also 34 FIITJEE's Long Term Classroom Program students have been declared City / District Toppers in NTSE Stage I, 2017-18 Results (Results from some States are still awaited)
Nagpur, 23rd March 2018: Displaying the supremacy of FIITJEE's teaching methodology, students from FIITJEE's Nagpur Centre have done remarkably well in NTSE Stage-I results in the City. Total 8 students from FIITJEE Nagpur Centre have demonstrated exemplary scholastic brilliance by qualifying in National Talent Search Examination Stage-I results (NTSE) 2017-18.
The National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) is a National level examination cum scholarship program. The scholarship program is conducted by NCERT and students studying in class X are eligible for NTSE 2017-18 examination and selection procedure. NTSE Stage 1 was conducted on November 5, 2017.
"We are thrilled with the exemplary performance of our students reflected through the outstanding results secured by them in NTSE Stage-1 results. Understanding the importance of the relevance of early preparation, FIITJEE believes in nurturing and enhancing the IQ of students as early as when in class VIII grade. Rote learning methods in Science just do not work as they fail to generate inquisitiveness and conceptual knowledge in children." says Mr. G. Amareswara Rao, Centre Head, FIITJEE, Nagpur.
These students have been qualified to appearin the Second stage of NTSE 2017-18, which is to be conducted by NCERT in the month of May 2018.
NTSE exam is conducted every year for class X students and is extremely popular scholarship examination among the bright and talented students of the country. This scheme was initiated in the year 1963 by Government of India to bring up qualitative improvement in the school education.
FIITJEE is the nation's premier institute for IIT-JEE training. FIITJEE believes that the ideal time for nurturing and enhancing the IQ of children is when they are in class VI, VII & VIII grade. It is with this belief that FIITJEE started imparting training to develop the nascent raw intelligence of the students from class VI onwards.


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Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) earned a total portfolio net return of 9.8 percent in its fiscal 2018 as well as a five-year annualized net return of 10.5 percent. Both returns are above their benchmarks. This performance helped increase the Montréal-based pension fund's total net assets to $153 billion, up 12.9 percent from the prior year's $135.6 billion. PSP's private equity investments generated a one-year net return of 12.9 percent in fiscal 2018, while infrastructure investments accounted for a net return of 19.3 percent. Neil Cunningham was appointed PSP's new president and CEO in February, replacing André Bourbonnais.
Photo: Neil Cunningham, president and CEO of PSP Investments.
PSP Investments posts strong performance in fiscal year 2018 – Net return of 9.8% brings net assets to $153.0 billion
One-year total portfolio net return of 9.8% generated $13.5 billion of net income, net of all PSP costs.
Five-year annualized net return of 10.5% which is 1.1% above the Policy Portfolio benchmark return.
Ten-year net annualized return of 7.1% generated $23.8 billion of cumulative net investment gains above the return objective of 5.8%.
MONTRÉAL, June 12, 2018 /CNW Telbec/ – The Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) announced today that it ended its fiscal year March 31, 2018 with net assets of $153.0 billion, compared to $135.6 billion the previous fiscal year, an increase of 12.9%. The investment manager reported a one-year total portfolio net return of 9.8% on its investments and generated $13.5 billion of net income, net of all PSP costs. This return is significantly greater than the Policy Portfolio benchmark return of 8.7%.
"This is a year we can be proud of," said Neil Cunningham, President and Chief Executive Officer at PSP Investments. "We sustained performance over a year marked by market volatility, which shows clearly that our strategic focus on increased diversification is generating returns. Once again, our people highlighted the possible in their active commitment to our shared purpose: to contribute to the financial security of the contributors and beneficiaries who have served Canada throughout their careers."
Net assets increased by $17.4 billion in fiscal year 2018, attributable to net income of $13.5 billion and net contributions of $3.9 billion. All asset classes saw strong returns.
Asset Class Highlights (see chart and notes here)
As of March 31, 2018:
Public Markets had net assets under management of $76.7 billion, a decrease of $0.5 billion from fiscal year 2017, and generated investment income of $6.3 billion, for a one-year return of 8.3%, compared to a benchmark of 7.7%. Public Markets continued to generate significant returns in fiscal year 2018, despite increased geopolitical risk, market volatility and rising interest rates, mainly during the fourth quarter. At fiscal 2018 year-end, net assets managed in active strategies totalled $45.8 billion, up from $38.8 billion the previous year, while net assets managed in internal active strategies totalled $31 billion, up from $24.6 billion.
Real Estate had $23.2 billion in net assets under management, up by $2.6 billion from the previous fiscal year, and generated $2.8 billion in investment income, resulting in a 13.6% one-year return versus 12.3% for the benchmark. Fiscal year 2018 was a year of stabilization and consolidation, reflecting the maturity of the Real Estate portfolio. The group achieved strong performance despite an ongoing low-yield environment. During fiscal year 2018, Pierre Gibeault was appointed Managing Director and Head of Real Estate Investments.
Private Equity had net assets under management of $19.4 billion, $3.5 billion more than in fiscal year 2017, and generated investment income of $2.1 billion, for a one-year return of 12.9%—versus a 3.4% loss in fiscal year 2017—compared to a benchmark return of 17.6%. The strong increase in fiscal year 2018 performance was mainly driven by strong valuation gains, notably in the financial and industrial sectors, but was partially offset by underperformance of certain investments. However, investments completed in the last three years, representing $9.9 billion of assets, have generated returns significantly above benchmark. Private Equity deployed a total of $4.4 billion (including $2.3 billion in new direct investments and co-investments) and committed a total of $4.1 billion for future deployment through 17 funds, 11 of which are with new fund partners. During fiscal year 2018, Mr. Simon Marc was appointed Managing Director and Head of Private Equity.
Infrastructure had $15.0 billion in net assets under management, a $3.9 billion increase from the prior fiscal year, and generated $2.3 billion of investment income, leading to a 19.3% one-year return, relative to the benchmark return of 12.1%. The group deployed $3.3 billion in fiscal year 2018, including $2.2 billion in direct investments. During fiscal year 2018, Mr. Patrick Samson was appointed Managing Director and Head of Infrastructure Investments.
Private Debt had net assets under management of $8.9 billion, an increase of $4.5 billion from the prior fiscal year, and generated net investment income of $569 million, resulting in an 8.2% one-year return, compared to a benchmark of 2.3%. The group deployed net $4.3 billion across over 30 transactions, including investments in revolving credit facilities, first and second lien term loans, and secured and unsecured bonds. The group's London team made great strides toward its long-term portfolio allocation target, with European assets under management accounting for 24% of the global Private Debt portfolio, up from 8% the prior year.
Natural Resources had net assets under management of $4.8 billion, an increase of $1.1 billion from the previous fiscal year, and generated record investment income of $450 million, for a one-year return of 11.2%, versus the 3.1% benchmark. The increase in net assets under management resulted primarily from $864 million in net deployments and $332 million in valuation gains. Income was driven by strong cash flows and valuation gains. The group made significant progress again this year in diversifying its investments into the agriculture sector, which now account for $2 billion of assets under management. During fiscal year 2018, Mr. Marc Drouin was appointed Managing Director and Head of Natural Resources.
Corporate Highlights
Our Board of Directors appointed Neil Cunningham as President and CEO on February 7, 2018. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Cunningham served as PSP's Senior Vice President, Global Head of Real Estate and Natural Resources at the organization.
We launched our Inclusion & Diversity (I&D) Forum and initiated an I&D Council co-chaired by Mr. Cunningham, for whom an active commitment to inclusion and diversity is a top priority.
We also received an important accolade by being recognized as one of Montréal's Top Employers.
This year's annual report marks the launch of PSP's new brand, Spot the Edge, which embodies our passion for exploring every angle, across asset classes, markets and industries, to broaden our perspectives and hone in on opportunities.
We continued to integrate environmental, social and governance factors into our investment decision-making process across asset classes. Significant progress was made on all pillars of our responsible investment strategy. Our second annual Responsible Investment Report can be consulted here.
"Our talented, high-performing people and expanded global footprint have allowed us to spot the edge and deliver solid and consistent results," Mr. Cunningham said. "Our vision is to be a leading global institutional investor, a partner of choice to the investment world and an enabler of complex investments. We have the knowledge, talent, systems and flexibility to seize global opportunities as they arise."
For more information on PSP Investments' fiscal year 2018 performance, please visit our dedicated microsite at www.investpsp.com or download the annual report here.
About PSP Investments
The Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) is one of Canada's largest pension investment managers with $153 billion of net assets as of March 31, 2018. It manages a diversified global portfolio composed of investments in public financial markets, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, natural resources and private debt. Established in 1999, PSP Investments manages net contributions to the pension funds of the federal Public Service, the Canadian Forces, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Reserve Force. Headquartered in Ottawa, PSP Investments has its principal business office in Montréal and offices in New York and London. For more information, visit investpsp.com or follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
For further information: Media contact: Maria Constantinescu, PSP Investments, Canada: 514-218-3795, Toll-free: 1-844-525-3795, email@example.com


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3 Exercise Tips for a Strong Prenatal Core
Farel B. Hruska
Core Strengthening DURING pregnancy? ABSolutely!
The functions of your core musculature as your pregnancy progresses are numerous. The most important of which is to help stave off postural dysfunction. One of the significant spinal changes that may result from an increased anterior load (aka BABY) is an anterior pelvic tilt...this leads to an exaggerated arch at the low back. This arch, if not dealt with, can lead to muscle fatigue and pain. One of the key functions of your core musculature when it is strengthened is to help keep the pelvis in neutral. This, alone, is a fantastic reason to target core strength during pregnancy!
A quick review of the muscles of the core includes looking at it in a 3 dimensional and cylindrical way. Your core is much more than your "6 pack". Consider thinking of your core as a cylinder with a top; your diaphragm, and a bottom; your pelvic floor. The other major muscles that complete it are:
- Transverse Abdominis: They are your deepest level and run parallel to the ground. When they contract they narrow the waist, like a corset.
- Obliques: Diagonal muscles which aid in twisting.
- Rectus Abdominis: Running from sternum to pubic bone; this set of muscles flex the spine (think: crunches)
While they are so many other muscles, these are the main players in core strength. To maintain your neutral spine as your baby grows, here are three functional core exercises to incorporate into your prenatal workouts:
1. Woodchop-Using either a weight or a resistance band, start in a squat with both hands down towards one ankle. Come out of the squat and then rotate the arms and torso upwards diagonally towards the sky. Keep your entire 3-D core engaged, as your obliques strengthen in rotation. (Motherhood application: Picking the car seat off the ground and placing it in the car)
2. Cat/Cow-On your hands and knees round the back up to the sky (Cat) and then gently arch (Cow). The degree of the arch is dependent on the comfort of your spine; going to simply neutral will work, as well. Be mindful of the "Cat" portion of the movement, if done with intention, this can be a great exercise for your rectus abdominis. It is essentially a crunch turned upside down. (Motherhood application: Standing up from sitting in chair with your baby in your arms)
3. Wall Sit with Adduction-Get into a wall sit with your shoulders pressed against the wall. Place something between the knees (we like a SPRI Sponge Ball) to engage your inner thighs. When your inner thighs are engaged, this puts good tension on the pelvic floor muscles, which secondarily strengthens them! BONUS! (Motherhood application: Possibly NOT leaking when you run to your baby!)
Keep your beautiful core in mind with these three movements as you exercise throughout your healthy pregnancy....Your spine will thank you! To find a village of prenatal moms check out Fit4Baby in your community.
#FridayFitnesswithFarel #FIT4MOM #Fit4Baby #StrengthforMotherhood #15yearsformama
*Always obtain your physician's clearance before attempting any fitness program


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Kathmandu: A powerful earthquake struck Nepal Saturday, killing at least 449 people, as the violently shaking earth collapsed houses, leveling centuries-old temples and triggered avalanches in the Himalayas. It was the worst temblor to hit the poor South Asian nation in over 80 years.
The quake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.9 struck before noon and was most severely felt in the capital as well as the densely populated Kathmandu Valley. Aftershocks continued to ripple through the region for hours.
Dozens of people with injuries were being brought to the main hospital in central Kathmandu. The Home Ministry said in a statement that 71 people were killed. It did not give details.
The earthquake also shook several cities across northern India, and was felt as far away as Lahore in Pakistan, Lhasa in Tibet, 550 kilometers (340 miles) east of Kathmandu, and in Bangladesh.
China's state broadcaster that said one Chinese tourist was killed at the Nepal-China border. Television reports from Bangladesh said 2 people were killed and about 100 injured
Pushpa Das, a laborer, ran from the house when the first quake struck but could not escape a collapsing wall that injured his arm.
"It was very scary. The earth was moving … I am waiting for treatment but the (hospital) staff is overwhelmed," he said, gingerly holding his right arm with his left hand. As he spoke dozens of more people showed up with injuries, mostly from falling bricks.
The quake's epicenter was 80 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of Kathmandu, and it had a depth of only 11 kilometers (7 miles), which is considered shallow in geological terms. The shallower the quake the more destructive power it carries.
As the ground began to shake, several buildings collapsed in the center of the capital, the ancient Old Kathmandu, including centuries-old temples and towers, said resident Prachanda Sual.
Among them was the Dharahara Tower, one of Kathmandu's landmarks built by Nepal's royal rulers in the 1800s and a UNESCO-recognized historical monument. It was reduced to rubble and there were reports of people trapped underneath.
While the extent of the damage and the scale of the disaster are yet to be ascertained, the quake will likely put a huge strain on the resources of this poor country best known for Everest, the highest mountain in the world. The economy of Nepal, a nation of 27.8 million people, is heavily dependent on tourism, principally trekking and Himalayan mountain climbing.
The U.S. Geological Survey revised the magnitude from 7.5 to 7.9 and said the quake hit at 11:56 a.m. local time (0611 GMT) at Lamjung. It was the largest shallow quake since the 8.2 temblor off the coast of Chile on April 1, 2014.
An earthquake's power increases by 10 times with each increase in the number of its scale. A magnitude 7 quake is capable of widespread and heavy damage while an 8 magnitude quake can cause tremendous damage.
Nepal suffered its worst recorded earthquake in 1934, which measured 8.0 and all but destroyed the cities of Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Patan.


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I know, I know, there's tons of teenagers in this country. But really, High School Musical 3 is the biggest movie in the country over its past opening weekend? $40 million dollars worth of teenagers and adults paid to see this movie.
I really am astounded.
I'm surprised Saw V managed to pull in just over $30 million, even with all the movie goers going to HSM. I'm actually surprised that many people paid to see it. It's the first Saw in 5 years that Christine hasn't begged me to go see opening night. That's probably because the franchise is beyond ridiculous now.
Forty million. That's 4 million people paying $10 each to see it. I… just… wow. Simply wow.
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Inter Milan vs Atalanta FLS Live Stream Preview and Prediction
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Inter Milan vs Atalanta
2016/17 Italian Serie A.
Date: Sunday, 12 March 2017
Kick-Off: 14:00 UK,
Venue: Stadio Giuseppe Meazza (Milan).
2016/17 Italian Serie A.
Date: Sunday, 12 March 2017
Kick-Off: 14:00 UK,
Venue: Stadio Giuseppe Meazza (Milan).
An all-Nerazzurri derby awaits as Inter and Atalanta lock horns in a game that could prove decisive in the battle for European football for next term.
Inter have managed to right the ship after struggling under Frank de Boer, whilst Atlanta have arguably been the surprise packages of the season. La Dea have taken down some of the league's biggest sides, including a very impressive 2-0 victory against Napoli at the Stadio San Paolo.
The Nerazzurri have won 11 out of their last 14 games, but have lost to the top three sides – Juventus, Napoli, and Roma. The most recent of these losses was a 3-1 reversal to the Giallorossi at this same ground.
Meanwhile, Atalanta sit in fifth spot, one point and one place ahead of their upcoming hosts. Having beaten Napoli on the road, they have shown that they are ready to mix it up with the top ranked sides. They come into this game having scored in their last five away fixtures, and are expected to find the back of the net here.
Inter's Mauro Icardi, of course, will be the go-to man for his side. The Argentinian continues to plunder goals at a rapid rate, and has racked up 17 goals including ten in his last eight at the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza.
In fact, Inter have scored in all of their home games, and have hit nearly 30 in their past 13 on home turf.
Inter Milan vs Atalanta: Head-to-head statistics
- Inter have a record of W8-D5-L7 in their last 20 home games against teams ranked above them in the table.
- Atalanta have a record of W7-D7-L6 in their last 20 away games against teams ranked below them in the table.
- Atalanta are undefeated in their last 7 matches.
- Inter have won 10 of their last 12 matches.
- The Nerazzurri have scored in all of their last nine league games against Atalanta
Inter vs Atalanta: Prediction
Both Inter and Atalanta come into this game with the same objective – to consolidate their grip on a European football spot. The Nerazzurri have lost two out of their last five, which have seen them slip out of the European football berths, whilst La Dea had won four on the trot before drawing their last game.
Given that Atalanta have scored in their last five away games, expect them to do likewise, whilst Inter will continue their strong scoring record at the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza.
Inter vs Atalanta: Betting tips
DRAW & BTTS – YES at 7/2 (4.50).